Comment on Why is the word "expat" a thing?
jqubed@lemmy.world 5 weeks agoThank you for this; I was thinking expat would be closer to emigrant than immigrant. I associate expat and emigrant with describing where someone is from while immigrant describes where someone has arrived.
Noel_Skum@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
To be an immigrant you must first be an emigrant. Emigrants leave their country, immigrants join a country.