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Expatriate vs. emigrant (immigrant): What's the difference?

Asked by Strauss (23634points) February 17th, 2016

Is it the desire (or lack therof) to return to the original land? In the case of my grandparents (all four of them!), they immigrated to the US in the late 1880’s seeking a new life and new opportunities. However, American writer Ernest Hemingway moved to Paris in 1921, and was considered an expatriate. Are they overlapping terms?

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