Do you have empathy for immigrants?

Or does it depend on something else.

What’s a migrant?
What’s an immigrant?
What’s an expat?
Or should these questions begin with who?

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I’ve found myself being all of these at a certain point in my life, and right now I get labelled a foreigner, a stranger, and expat and an immigrant.

I moved to Croatia from the UK, and now I have my permanent residency here. I still intend to flex my travelling mind and muscle, yet this will remain my base.

But what comes to your mind when I say the word immigrant.

Is it something that is friend or foe?

How about if I start using the word expat, short for expatriate.

Is that more palatable?

It all depends on your outlook I guess.

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