In places that have expat”communities I’m sure that word is perfectly acceptable and if that is your primary audience makes perfect sense

As a person who came to share Mexico’s real culture, I live within the Mexican community, the city at large and most of my life is populated with everyday Mexican people I don’t care for that label. My dream of Mexico has finally come to exist after a lifetime of visits and 10 years of living. My Spanish is good enough to now have more Mexican friends than foreigners, and I live in a wonerful working class colonia in Zihuatanejo. I do have very good friends, those considered expats, who speak little Spanish and occupy large homes with new cars but mostly the heart of Mexico finally fills most of my life. I will forever have the privilege of being a foreigner when I choose, as a white. man with an American passport. My intention is th live long enough to get my Mexican passport, The only gringo I’ve ever known who was a true immigrant was the woodcarver Gerald Shaw. an African American from Boston who moved to Zihuatanejo in the early l960’s and lived as an artisan and as a campesino harvesting corn and other crops. He lived in a small palapa house and studio entirely off the grid which he bult with his own hands.

I will never be Mexican, but this country and it’s culture is what I admire most. and have chosen for myself and I live daily with the intention and joy of assimilating and sharing its roots as much and as deeply as possible.

As I am a citizen of the USA, could be a citizen of Mexico by simply applying, and am a permanent resident of Ecuador, I prefer to think of myself as an ” internationalist.”

An immigrant is someone who decides to move to an other country, settle down and establish roots. To gain employment, establish a family, kinda cut off ties to the home country but still have the citizenship to head back, etc.

My ancestors in the mid-1600s were British subjects who immigrated from England to the English Colony of Virginia in the Americas. In the 1770s, my Grandfather, a farmer in the Culpeper County Piedmont area, also was a Captain in the Culpeper Minutemen (a well-regulated militia). He turned traitor and fought with Washington to establish Virginia as a free and independent State in what became the United States of America.

A migrant, as the article says, is kinda like a person with no intended roots who often moves around to where the work opportunities are, often seasonal as in agriculture planting and harvesting. Or forestry, fishing, digital nomads who can work on-line anywhere if there’s Internet, etc.

An immigrant is someone who decides to move to an other country, settle down and establish roots. To gain employment, establish a family, kinda cut off ties to the home country but still have the citizenship to head back, etc.

My ancestors in the mid-1600s were British subjects who immigrated from England to the English Colony of Virginia in the Americas. In the 1770s, my Grandfather, a farmer in the Culpeper County Piedmont area, also was a Captain in the Culpeper Minutemen (a well-regulated militia). He turned traitor and fought with Washington to establish Virginia as a free and independent State in what became the United States of America.

A migrant, as the article says, is kinda like a person with no intended roots who often moves around to where the work opportunities are, often seasonal as in agriculture planting and harvesting. Or forestry, fishing, digital nomads who can work on-line anywhere if there’s Internet, etc.

My view of a migrant is someone (people) who are looking for a better life, work…yes they may move through or may be only in one location for work and returning to their home country.

But there is always opportunity for change. Yes you publish for “expats” but your publications also directs “expats” on how they see themselves. Perhaps it’s time to look how those who are native to this country see as you call “expats” and what would improve their impression of those who have chosed to live in this wonderful country. In Canada I do not call people from another country an expat. I identify them as possibly an immigrant or foreigner.