What's the difference between expat and migrant?

Expat


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) I joined the march of flags initiated by a Swedish expat here in Kiev.
  • (2) Last week the International Consortium of British Pensioners (ICBP), which represents expat campaigning groups in Australia and Canada, launched its new Pension Justice website , aimed at highlighting their plight.
  • (3) "All those vuvuzuelas must be interfering with Cha Bum-Kun's ability to remote control his robot creation - er, son - Cha Du-ri," suggests Angela K, a South Korean expat in the US.
  • (4) Expat Greeks, he insisted, were showing "mass support for the efforts of Golden Dawn, not just in Germany but wherever there are diaspora Greeks".
  • (5) They’re profoundly resourceful.” An estimated 20,000 expats live in Lakeside during the winter high season – half of them American, half Canadian – attracted by the spring-like climate, charming villages and cheap property and healthcare.
  • (6) The Mail says: “It’s the bloody-minded Brussels bureaucracy, not her, that is bargaining with family lives and happiness.” Because, of course, she is “pushing hard for a deal that upholds the rights of all expats”.
  • (7) Expats allegedly involved in Reza Barati murder not returned to PNG, court told Read more Kirriwom will reopen the case on 30 November, when the court next sits on Manus Island.
  • (8) The expats, who include Annette Carson, 69, who now lives in South Africa, claimed the government was guilty of unlawful discrimination.
  • (9) For Vona is here to woo the estimated 50,000 Hungarian expats living in the UK, more than half of whom live in London and the south-east of England.
  • (10) This shop caters mainly for expats, but a new, bigger City Shop has now opened in downtown Shanghai to lure in Chinese shoppers.
  • (11) Scotland is a paradise on paper,” says one expat Scot who has been based in London for the past few years.
  • (12) Nadim Shehadi, associate fellow at Chatham House, said: "When Bashar al-Assad came to power there was optimism among the expats that there was going to be a change from his father, so they started to engage with him and they won some concessions.
  • (13) It is still Syrian expats – individuals – who are providing the funding by and large," said a Syrian businessman who has helped fund the opposition since the uprising began 22 months ago.
  • (14) On Monday, Hollingworth turned 100 and, fittingly for one of the most legendary war reporters of the 20th century, the occasion was marked in style at the Foreign Correspondents' Club in Hong Kong, the expat watering hole of which she has been the doyenne for more than two decades.
  • (15) They’re like the sort of expat communities JG Ballard writes about: airless and sanitised pockets of a home country in a foreign land.
  • (16) Because of the extraterritorial reach in the Drip bill, it requires foreign internet service providers, who may be providing webmail services to British citizens (think of the expats living in Spain or Florida and using national ISPs for example), to store data about those British citizens in data or storage centres outside the jurisdiction of the UK Data Protection and other relevant Acts,” Davis told the Guardian.
  • (17) International schools are opening in order to meet the rapidly growing needs of expat families whose careers are based overseas, yet who want their children to have access to a UK-style education.
  • (18) "Islamist violence directed at expat workers in the extractive industries is an increasing concern, not just in Libya but across north Africa ," said Duncan Bullivant, chief executive of British security firm Henderson Risk.
  • (19) I think it will be another kick for a country with an already waning economy, I think a lot of expat businesses are already a bit sick of the UAE's red tape.
  • (20) The group had been leading a campaign to overturn rules which they say result in 540,000 expat pensioners receiving lower state pensions than their counterparts residing in Britain and some other countries.

Migrant


Definition:

  • (a.) Migratory.
  • (n.) A migratory bird or other animal.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The rise of malaria despite of control measures involves several factors: the house spraying is no more accepted by a large percentage of house holders and the alternative larviciding has only a limited efficacy; the houses of American Indians have no walls to be sprayed; there is a continuous introduction of parasites by migrants.
  • (2) Among the migrants from the regions with contrasting climatic conditions.
  • (3) Migrant voters are almost as numerous as current Ukip supporters but they are widely overlooked and risk being increasingly disaffected by mainstream politics and the fierce rhetoric around immigration caused partly by the rise of Ukip,” said Robert Ford from Manchester University, the report’s co-author.
  • (4) Cancer of the mouth, pharynx and esophagus has decreased in all Japanese migrants, but the decrease is much greater among Okinawan migrants, suggesting they have escaped exposure to risk factors peculiar to the Okinawan environment.
  • (5) Does anybody honestly believe the vast majority of migrants don’t want that too?
  • (6) When the standoff ended after 30 minutes, a French police officer told the migrants: “Here is your friend.
  • (7) What happened in the past was that if smugglers are sure that European boats are patrolling very close to the Libyan coast, then traffickers use this opportunity to advertise, and say to potential irregular migrants: ‘You will be sure to reach the European coast.
  • (8) The report paints a picture characterised too often by international indifference, even over the collection and distribution of the raw data on migrant deaths.
  • (9) It’s clear which way the ultra-right community around Ukip wishes to go: their timelines are full of praise for Marine Le Pen and Geert Wilders , and blazing with imagery – both real and fake – of migrant riots in France and Sweden.
  • (10) In addition, the UK government will provide further resources to the European Asylum Support Office to help Greece and Italy identify migrants, including children, who could be reunited with family members elsewhere in Europe.
  • (11) In a 2012 study submitted to the UN, the Petersburg-based centre alleged that Roma and migrants were routinely subjected to police torture .
  • (12) But with a civil war raging and no one to protect them, most migrants are at risk of kidnap, extortion and forced labour.
  • (13) As for the claim that British hospitals and GP surgeries would not be so full, a UCL study showed that EU migrants who have come since 2000 are most likely to be single people in their 20s and 30s – the age group least likely to usehealth services.
  • (14) The conversation between the two men, printed in Monday's edition of Wprost news magazine , reveals the extent of the fallout between Poland and the UK over Cameron's proposals to change EU migrants' access to benefits.
  • (15) Iowa senator Chuck Grassley, the Republican who chairs the Senate judiciary committee, introduced legislation on Tuesday that would crack down on jurisdictions that provide safe harbor for undocumented migrants by withholding some federal funding for state and local entities if they decline to cooperate with the government on the holding or transferring of undocumented migrants with criminal records.
  • (16) All together now, sing “One Million More Migrants are On Their Way”.
  • (17) My every instinct is to stand with those who defend migrants and migration.
  • (18) The Kremlin has so far refrained from dealing with mounting anger against people from Russia's turbulent North Caucasus region, as well as migrant workers from central Asia, which has grown as the country's oil-fuelled economic boom has given way to the hardship of the global financial crisis.
  • (19) He says there are many optimistic tales to tell – migrant families, he says, are helping to drive up standards in local schools – but such stories tend to get lost in an online world that has precious little interest in them.
  • (20) Police reinforcements are being sent to the embattled port of Calais in an attempt to prevent increasingly desperate attempts by migrants to gain access to the UK.

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