He’s a German green card permanent resident. Not an expat. He still holds German citizenship. No US citizenship yet for even dual. This admin is trying to torture and kick out people for PROTESTING, this shouldn’t come as shock.
Unless it’s shocking cause dude is white?
Expats ARE immigrants
The former is supposed to mean you’re abroad temporarily, usually sent by your job. An immigrant is moving country probably permanently, probably on their own initiative
BUT-the socio-economic trends that separate the two mean expat usually gets used for white people & immigrant for non-whites
Uh, ok. You’re using an article which discusses the changing and actual use of the terms as evidence against me saying “they were/technically are one thing but often used differently”. You either don’t understand what I said or don’t understand what the article said bc they’re not conflictory.
However, I live in Costa Rica and ALL the retirees here call themselves expats. I challenge it. When I looked it up the term, it was apparently started by British living outside their country and it’s been adopted. It’s really silly. We have residency here. We plan to stay. We’re immigrants.
When I lived in London, I would often talk to cabbies that were immigrants & I always referred to myself as an immigrant too (I’m American). They were often surprised - non-native English speakers don’t get the accent difference & just assumed I was a white British woman. Expat is so socially coded
Ex-pats are generally described as people who temporarily move for work, while immigrants are those who move permanently. However, these terms have often been used with racial and social biases, with ‘expat’ more commonly applied to Westerners and ‘immigrant’ to people of colour.
More specifically my understanding of expat (has having been in the French expat community) is that you have moved abroad to work there for an employer from your original country. You've been "sent there". This is why diplomats are expats.
In short, ‘expat’ is now often used to describe white people abroad, while ‘immigrant’ is applied to people of colour, often with a negative connotation. Yet, both are technically migrants.
Not necessarily, I know a lot of people who’ve had Green Cards who moved back to their home countries. Whether due to family or kids. It’s not as cut and dried.
Expat lives outside their original country of citizenship. Immigrant has been granted resident (or citizen) status in another country. This person is both at once. Same goes for me; American expat, Canadian immigrant.
(You can be an expat without actually immigrating. Living somewhere else on a student or work visa, etc. Usually temporary, or with the goal of eventually going through immigration.)
Skin color mostly! 😬
Expat is supposed to be someone sent by a private company for a temporary posting abroad. But I've never seen it used for brown people!
In essence, while both expats and immigrants move to new countries, the key differences lie in their intentions, duration of stay, and often their socio-economic backgrounds.
And given the current trajectory, the jump from immigrants to citizens will happen sooner rather than later. We're going to regret playing so freely with the word "terrorism" over the last 25 years.
Same with the words nazi/fascist/Hitler. Those words have been used so much it's like the boy who cried wolf. Now that the real thing is here, no one pays attention
I'm sure a lot of folks in or from, *checks notes,* most Middle Eastern countries would feel that way. The republicans have bbeen hurdling full speed toward this since Reagan at the latest, and the democrats have, at best, been bystanders who feign opposition to it
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Unless it’s shocking cause dude is white?
Expats ARE immigrants
BUT-the socio-economic trends that separate the two mean expat usually gets used for white people & immigrant for non-whites
https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20170119-who-should-be-called-an-expat
Expat is supposed to be someone sent by a private company for a temporary posting abroad. But I've never seen it used for brown people!
If he had a bench warrant for a DUI he’s eligible to lose the green card & be deported. Not right or fair, but legal.
Centrists: Heh, exaggerate much?
Conservatives: Here's our 1000 page document on how we're going to do theocratic fascism