Also, in my head, it has something to do with whether one is resettled permanently (immigrant) or planning to go back at some point (expat)
Huh. Expat to me connotes, say, Hemingway & whatever. Did he intend to go back to the US? I'm blissfully ignorant of most of the details of his life, but in my head expats are there for good.
Also, lots of immigrants are transnational: they may not intend to stay in the US (f'rex) for good, but end up doing so b/c of money, or they move back & forth a lot. I dunno, most of my uncles on the Filipino side of the family moved back & forth between there & the US (& also Guam, Austria, & other places). They may well end up moving back (as my grandparents did before they died) too.
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Huh. Expat to me connotes, say, Hemingway & whatever. Did he intend to go back to the US? I'm blissfully ignorant of most of the details of his life, but in my head expats are there for good.
Also, lots of immigrants are transnational: they may not intend to stay in the US (f'rex) for good, but end up doing so b/c of money, or they move back & forth a lot. I dunno, most of my uncles on the Filipino side of the family moved back & forth between there & the US (& also Guam, Austria, & other places). They may well end up moving back (as my grandparents did before they died) too.