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The term ‘expat’ is loaded. It’s time we moved on, argues Carrie Frais.
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IN a quick online search asking the question: ‘What is the difference between an expat and an immigrant?’ Google tells us that ‘..it usually comes down to socio-economic factors, so skilled professionals working in another country are described as expatriates, whereas a manual labourer who has moved to another country to earn more money might be labelled an immigrant’.
The Oxford English Dictionary tells us that an immigrant is ‘a person who comes to live permanently in a foreign country’.