• Dessalines@lemmy.ml
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    7 months ago

    It’s not super set in stone, but there are class connotations to the two terms. At least in the US, poorer people from central and south america? They’re labeled migrants or immigrants. Wealthy or upper class people from europe? Expats.

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      7 months ago

      People coming over for work/business: expats.

      Unemployed people migrating to look for a better life or job: (im)migrants.

      That’s how I understood it.

      I’m kind of in between. I’m not an expat, but immigrant doesn’t sound right neither. I just call myself a foreigner.