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  • Rakonat@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    It’s semantics but the difference between expat and immigrants is an expat intends to return to their home country some day, where an immigrant does not.

    • IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world
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      it’s racism

      if a westerner works with plans to return they are called expat, if it’s a non western, they are called migrants labour or foreign workers and are treated like shit.

      • Tollana1234567@lemmy.today
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        12 hours ago

        they dont like to be called immigrants, because then they would have to be labeled like the “brown people” they say have hawking over.

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      Yes, but connotatively it is just a marker of privilege. Especially here, since what we’re talking about is immigration, not temporary work.