What's the difference between expatriate and immigrant?

Expatriate


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To banish; to drive or force (a person) from his own country; to make an exile of.
  • (v. t.) Reflexively, as To expatriate one's self: To withdraw from one's native country; to renounce the rights and liabilities of citizenship where one is born, and become a citizen of another country.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) "Zayani reportedly cited the political sensitivity of naturalising Sunni expatriates and wanted to avoid provoking the opposition," the embassy said.
  • (2) Poor workplace health and safety, inadequate toilet facilities and dangerous fumes from mosquito fogging that led to one asylum seeker with asthma collapsing were all raised as concerns by Kilburn, although he stressed that he believed G4S management and expatriate G4S staff acted appropriately.
  • (3) Clinical features in 173 white expatriates returning to Britain with the sole diagnosis of schistosomiasis were compared with those in non-infected control subjects, matched for age and sex, returning from similar endemic areas.
  • (4) So when he came to tell me, he said, "Don't get too enthusiastic, it has nothing to do with your abilities, it's to do with the fact that they have just raised the expatriate allowances."
  • (5) These findings support the hypothesis that differences in the modulation of the immune response to parasite antigen are responsible for the observed differences in clinical presentation between expatriate and endemic populations with loiasis.
  • (6) I’ll talk in English,” he said, speaking to Filipino expatriates on a two-day state visit to Myanmar.
  • (7) Tiny Qatar, the richest of them all, leads the region in using wealth to provide subsidised education and food to buy the acquiescence if not the loyalty of their people – who in several countries are outnumbered by expatriate foreigners.
  • (8) Some members of the expatriate community living in Russia have become Russian citizens for marriage or business reasons, but it is a very rare occurrence, said Tatyana Bondrayevna, director of the Visa Delight migration agency.
  • (9) Monitoring the incidence of malaria in highly exposed expatriates provides early warning of the emergence of drug-resistant P falciparum malaria and can provide data to guide recommendations for travelers.
  • (10) Specialized HIV clinics have also been set up, with both Qatari and expatriate patients being enrolled in treatment programmes.
  • (11) Four of these were expatriate doctors who had worked in Africa.
  • (12) The reason had nothing to do with my success, it was because the allowances for expatriate people, of which I was one, were raised across the board.
  • (13) Her previous studies suggest the higher rates of depression among Haitian expatriates were linked to the drop in family contact the immigrants experienced.
  • (14) While there have been no reports of violence against Japanese citizens, some expatriates voiced concern about their safety.
  • (15) The expatriate advisor or 'expert' working in Indonesian medical education will require a complex range of personal and professional qualities if he or she is to be effective.
  • (16) The documentary moves beyond the charity's work to show British expatriates in Kenya; one stompingly posh woman remarks they have "a wildly gay time" there, and she feels that "even in their poverty, [the Kenyan people] are basically happy".
  • (17) Cannot she see that the best way to safeguard the rights of the 1.2 million UK citizens resident in the EU is to cement the goodwill of European governments by offering full and immediate assurances to their expatriates?
  • (18) Third of Saudi air raids on Yemen have hit civilian sites, data shows Read more The unease manifested itself early on in the campaign when calls were put into media organisations by British expatriates based in Saudi Arabia and members of the public in the UK who had picked up snippets from British service personnel in pubs, clubs or school playgrounds about the UK military working alongside the Saudi air force.
  • (19) Meanwhile in France, the former ruler of the North African country, expatriates celebrated.
  • (20) The development of concepts concerning the epidemiology of human malaria and the use of antimalarial drugs, either as protective or curative, lead more and more to the necessity for any traveller or expatriate to take medical advice from a specialized physician.

Immigrant


Definition:

  • (n.) One who immigrates; one who comes to a country for the purpose of permanent residence; -- correlative of emigrant.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) However, as other patients who lived at the periphery of the Valserine valley do not appear to be related to any patients living in the valley, and because there has been considerable immigration into the valley, a number of hypotheses to explain the distribution of the disease in the region remain possible.
  • (2) Unfortunately, due to confidentiality clauses that have been imposed on us by the Department of Immigration and Border Protection, we are unable to provide our full names and … titles … However, we believe the evidence that will be submitted will validate the statements that we are making in this submission.” The submission detailed specific allegations – including names and dates – of sexual abuse of child detainees, violence and bullying of children, suicide attempts by children and medical neglect.
  • (3) At the time, with a regular supply of British immigrants arriving in large numbers in Australia, Biggs was able to blend in well as "Terry Cook", a carpenter, so well in fact that his wife, Charmian, was able to join him with his three sons.
  • (4) 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.
  • (5) Lin Homer's CV Lin Homer left local for national government in 2005, giving up a £170,000 post as chief executive of Birmingham city council after just three years in post, to head the Immigration Service.
  • (6) The frequency of oesophageal cancer varies among the native and immigrant populations in different countries.
  • (7) This is a rare diagnosis but it should still be kept in mind, particularly in the immigrant population of the United Kingdom and Saudi Arabia and particularly of the Saudis from the southern provinces.
  • (8) In view of its infrequent and vague presentation, care is required to avoid overlooking the diagnosis of abdominal tuberculosis, particularly in the immigrant population.
  • (9) But when, less than two weeks out from the election, voters were asked to name the issues most important to them in the campaign, they nominated unemployment, inflation and economic management, rather than immigration and border control.
  • (10) In an anthropologic study of illness referral among Latin-American immigrants three phases were ascertained: First, there was extended use of self-treatment.
  • (11) Specifically, the study investigated the cross-cultural utility of the Symptom Checklist-90 (SCL-90) by examining scores of community and patient samples of Korean immigrants and comparing them with norms for Americans and for Koreans living in Korea.
  • (12) But Berlusconi and Sarkozy, seeking to curry favour with the strong far-right constituencies in both countries, sought to bury their differences by urging the rest of Europe to buy into their anti-immigration agenda.
  • (13) Thus, the dental health and dietary habits of the Greek immigrant and the Swedish children were generally very similar, while the Greek rural children showed a less favourable cariological status.
  • (14) America is made up of immigrants and to shut the doors to others is just ludicrous.
  • (15) O rdinary hard-working people have genuine concerns about immigration, and to ignore immigration is to undemocratically ignore their needs.” Other than the resurgent importance of jam , this is the clearest message we are supposed to take out of Brexit.
  • (16) The campaign has used mobile billboards warning illegal immigrants to "go home or face arrest".
  • (17) It would seem that Cameron's repeated high-profile speeches on immigration may have more to do with meeting the political challenge of Ukip than grappling with any alleged problem of benefit or health "tourism".
  • (18) Once installed, the alliance will become an awkward, obstructionist presence, committed, in the words of the Northern League's Matteo Salvini, to "a different Europe, based on work and peoples and not in the one based on servitude to the euro and banks, ready to let us die from immigration and unemployment".
  • (19) Respectable Europeans may damn the nationalist parties that have risen up against mass immigration as “far right”.
  • (20) Removing that economic incentive is the most powerful thing we can do to reduce levels of immigration back to what British people want to see,” he said.