General Article An expat is an immigrant. Here’s why.

Topic Selected: Expat or Immigrant? Book Volume: 429

By Alexander Black

My story

When I was still a teenager, I accepted a job working in Mallorca, a Spanish island in the Mediterranean Sea. At the time I had no idea that there was such a large British community living there. In addition to this, I was shocked that many of them did not speak a word of Spanish despite sometimes residing 20 years on the island. But there was something else that made me feel deeply uncomfortable – the way they talked about immigrants.

Immigrants were largely a hot...

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