Expat vs. Immigrant: The racial sorting and stigma hidden inside everyday migration vocabulary

The split is built into the words themselves. Expat is shortened from expatriate, drawn from the Latin ex, meaning out of, and patria, meaning homeland. The word presumes a fixed national identity …

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