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Post by igorkraw » Tue, Apr 12, 2022, 7:38 AM UTC

dontlaugh wrote: post #89

rob74 wrote: post #63

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Not from the meaning of the words however - "expat" describes your relationship to your former country, and "immigrant" describes your relationship to the country you are currently living in. So if you live in another country than you were born in, you're actually always both at the same time - i.e. an American expat living in Germany is an immigrant to Germany.

And yet Americans in Germany are called expats, but Eastern Europeans or Africans or Middle Easterners in Germany are called immigrants.

Are they? I have a couple of Russian expat friends on Switzerland and Germany. This might be my bubble and I appreciate your calling out a bias in who we think of as "foreign" but I'm not sure it's this clean cut

Post by nosianu » Wed, Apr 13, 2022, 9:11 PM UTC

pasabagi wrote: post #380

nosianu wrote: post #212

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> I know with 100% certainty that unless I go fight for something like ISIS, India will take me back without any problems. No one else will do that. It's going off-topic now for the thread, but since you mentioned it: Some European countries do just that. https://www.dw.com/en/over-100-islamic-state-fighters-return... > Authorities believe that 1,060 IS fighters left Germany for Syria or Iraq, of which a third have s…

In general the idea of removing somebody's citizenship for any reason is highly problematic, as it leads to the possibility of a get-out clause around the inalienable rights that citizens are supposed to have.

I think in the mentioned cases, and maybe in similar ones I heard of before, the alternative was not to revoke citizenship, but to let them rot in a foreign jail.

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