makes ya think don't it?

  • gammison [none/use name]
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    4 years ago

    It used to only be used to refer to people who got exiled from their home country, don't really know when the use shifted to a wider meaning, it had to be sometime around or after WW2 as I do remember reading the expat community still referring primarily to exiles and foreign writers and journalists in the 1930s. I will say that immigrant technically means permanent moving, but there's absolutely anglocentrism and classism on who gets called an expat and who gets called a migrant worker and expat communities often came during decolonization to be sort of colonial holdovers.