@elexia there's a kind of hard situtuation behind this:
lawers have told us that someone choosing to take the label 'immigrant', an 'emigrant' or a 'migrant' can convey intention that can be disqualifying in cases where someone wants to seek non-immigrant residence visas
I don't want to participate in the endemic classism that leads people to separate the terms 'expat' and 'immigrant' --
I'm an immigrant, where I live, and it's a nicer label than being defined by where I came from -- but I also have been told to be careful to use the more flmsily-defined terms when addressing vulnerable folks, less any of it become grounds for visa denial
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