Organizational Culture

Differeces between Migrants and Expatriates

Publicado por Diego Silva , martes, 2 de marzo de 2010 8:05

The term expatriate refers mainly to skilled migration because not all of them have the need to go living abroad, besides is very normal for example that some multinational companies send them to work for a period of time in another country or considered legal migration with all the paperwork need to apply for a working visa and stuff like that, and later return to their home country, this is not considered as a force migration, meanwhile immigrants tend to be more labour kind of worker who wants better life conditions and standards of living, that doesn’t necessarily mean legal migration. Actually both terms refer to people living in a different culture from their own culture, but depending on the conditions of the person going abroad you can consider them expatriate or immigrant.
Image: Migrants, available at: http://mammjtommo.files.wordpress.com/2008/04/migrants.jpg