Do I know (or not yet know 😇) people here, who are German #expats in the #Netherlands?
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Do I know (or not yet know
) people here, who are German #expats in the #Netherlands? I'd like talk to you, please! Please #boost4reach -
Do I know (or not yet know
) people here, who are German #expats in the #Netherlands? I'd like talk to you, please! Please #boost4reach@hausgeist hi, could you please stop using the expat hashtag? that's an awful classist word, and we don't want that kind of discrimination, right?
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Do I know (or not yet know
) people here, who are German #expats in the #Netherlands? I'd like talk to you, please! Please #boost4reach@hausgeist I know 4 Germans living in the Netherlands reasonably well, but none of them is on Mastodon. I can't very well give you their phone numbers without a good reason. Can they reach your in any other way?
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@hausgeist hi, could you please stop using the expat hashtag? that's an awful classist word, and we don't want that kind of discrimination, right?
@polarjet You're absolutely right, thank you. Fixed.
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@hausgeist hi, could you please stop using the expat hashtag? that's an awful classist word, and we don't want that kind of discrimination, right?
@polarjet @hausgeist Honest question, as someone in The Hague, the word 'expat' is still used a lot around here. The problem is that is makes a division between certain groups of foreign workers? Or something else? Thank you for explaining.
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@polarjet @hausgeist Honest question, as someone in The Hague, the word 'expat' is still used a lot around here. The problem is that is makes a division between certain groups of foreign workers? Or something else? Thank you for explaining.
@ankedesign @polarjet @hausgeist in the older definition an expat is send by a company. So an International company sends an employee from another country which is an expat from the perspective of the sending country and an impat from the perspective of the recieving country. This is also the definition within Wikipedia.
Another definition that you also find is that expats have legal ground to stay in another country so they don't have to ask for permission.
That is with marriage but within Schengen also covers the other Schengen citizens - like me as a German in NL but also Americans that are here based on DAFT. Usually that also applies to people who are there based on high skilled labor.
It is seen as a problematic term by some few because it tries to separate from people that migrated to another country and that sometimes are referred as refugees.
In that definition expats are white migrants .... And that makes the term problematic.
I have been called an expat by the city of Rotterdam without knowing the difference of the terms. -
Do I know (or not yet know
) people here, who are German #expats in the #Netherlands? I'd like talk to you, please! Please #boost4reach@hausgeist I am a German living in NL. I have send you a direct message.
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Do I know (or not yet know
) people here, who are German #expats in the #Netherlands? I'd like talk to you, please! Please #boost4reach@hausgeist I moved from DE to NL and back again.
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@polarjet @hausgeist Honest question, as someone in The Hague, the word 'expat' is still used a lot around here. The problem is that is makes a division between certain groups of foreign workers? Or something else? Thank you for explaining.
@ankedesign in short, yes, that's the problem. The words migrant or foreign worker express the same meaning, but somehow the word 'expat' has been adopted by/assigned to migrants with high income.
Sadly, migration is being criminalised nowadays. I think it's important to choose 'migrant' over 'expat' every now and then so people can understand that being a migrant isn't inherently bad, but just an administrative category.
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Do I know (or not yet know
) people here, who are German #expats in the #Netherlands? I'd like talk to you, please! Please #boost4reach@hausgeist I know one. What's the issue? It should be straightforward
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@hausgeist hi, could you please stop using the expat hashtag? that's an awful classist word, and we don't want that kind of discrimination, right?
@polarjet @hausgeist it's also factually incorrect for the EU
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@ankedesign @polarjet @hausgeist in the older definition an expat is send by a company. So an International company sends an employee from another country which is an expat from the perspective of the sending country and an impat from the perspective of the recieving country. This is also the definition within Wikipedia.
Another definition that you also find is that expats have legal ground to stay in another country so they don't have to ask for permission.
That is with marriage but within Schengen also covers the other Schengen citizens - like me as a German in NL but also Americans that are here based on DAFT. Usually that also applies to people who are there based on high skilled labor.
It is seen as a problematic term by some few because it tries to separate from people that migrated to another country and that sometimes are referred as refugees.
In that definition expats are white migrants .... And that makes the term problematic.
I have been called an expat by the city of Rotterdam without knowing the difference of the terms.@mcfly @ankedesign @polarjet @hausgeist Americans don't have rights in the EU unless covered by a visa and non Schengen EU citizens like me have the right to live anywhere in the EU no matter how hard you try to stop us. Americans and British don't have this right but are give it informally by clueless Europeans
