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barry1010 | 08:02 Wed 28th Feb 2024 | ChatterBank
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You are referring to linguistic shift - and I dont think if affects this pair

( You know, gay 1939 does not mean gay now)

if you google "emigrant v expat" ?

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I wanted personal views of the terms, not dictionary definitions, dave.

 

 

Oh, personally - immigrant - you just have to remember the direction ( with reference to the place)

If a Brit goes to Canada- he is an emigrant here and an immigrant there

Both parents were migrants ( within our glorious empire with freedom of travel) and two siblings and two nephews - no four...many cousins

Remeber whilst we are at it, the cost to the Treasury to rehoming 'White Settlers' from the  then Rhodesia was ( and still is) ...... nil.

they were always rehomed by other resident members of the family.

some unlucky choosers ( wrong choice geddit) accepted free migration to Angola to farm - - - the farms were nationalised two years later. So THEY had to start over twice, and "work until they drop"

The Poles next door have gone back to Poland ( what????) and said - well once you pull up stumps and move..... you can easily do it a second time - yeah but no but you are moving TO a war zone....

well you'll get more sense than what PP is spouting🙄

Ex-pats when it's Brits moving abroad. Migrants when poorer people come here. 
 

I think that's what you're getting at with your question. 

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Clover, I am not referring to people coming into to the UK.

I was wondering why we called British people who moved abroad ex-pats and not emigrants.

I have no wish to discuss here people who move in to the UK.

I think expats want to keep a foot in the "old" country - just in case.

Emigrants cut themselves off completely (except maybe for some emotional attachment - cf Irish Americans) and wouldn't return under any circumstance.

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You could be right, dave.  I've known a few folk who call themseleves ex-pats but flew back to the UK every 3 months for their NHS prescriptions, eye tests and dentistry.  I have thought that that might have helped the NHS to decide to limit repeat prescriptions to monthly in many instances.

I think you're right dave. Expats is a more more inclusive term. Can include those temporarily working abroad as well as those who have actually emigrated.

And ... have you ever noticed that Scots, and those of Scottish decent,  seem to be more Scottish than those born in Scotland?

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Can't hold a candle to the Oirish though, Wolf.

Emigrants,.,, No such thing as expats.

Ex pats often encompasses those working and living abroad on a temporary basis.

Someone who emigrates packs up and goes for good.

Trouble is some decide they are going for good and often come back.  My friends who went for good now are desperate to come back now they are older.  I think this happens to many.

I worked abroad for four years. I didn't emigrate.

Or even Brits abroad.

Brits abroad is, erm, a broad definition- too broad, as it can include those abroad on holiday  

Trouble is some decide they are going for good and often come back. 

about 50% of those going to Canada last one winter. Having done a bit of Nfld. I dont blame them

one of my father's colleagues ( " famously unhappy" ) - went to Oz ( 2y) came back, went to Oz ( 10y) and came back here again ( for care I bet)

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