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Why are White People Expats When the Rest of Us Are Immigrants?

May 12, 2015 by Mateus Andrade in Editorial

What is an expat? And who is an expat? The word comes from the Latin terms ex (‘out of’) and patria (‘country, fatherland’)”. Defined that way, you should expect that any person going to work outside of his or her country for a period of time would be an expat, regardless of his skin colour or country. But that is not the case in reality; expat is a term reserved exclusively for western white people going to work abroad.

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Written by Mawuna Remarque Koutonin for The Guardian

May 12, 2015 /Mateus Andrade
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