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Someone who moved for a better life and got a worse label for it.
means A person who moves from one place or country to another, often in search of work or a better life.
from From Latin 'migrare,' meaning simply 'to move from one place to another.' It entered English in the 1700s as a plain, neutral term — the same root gives us 'migrate' and 'migration,' words we still use cheerfully about birds and butterflies. The sting it carries today, applied to people, is a political accretion, not an etymological one.
- legal meaning
- crosses a border, no refugee status required
- word games
- migrant vs refugee often decided by politics, not law
- global scale
- over 280 million people live outside their birth country
- economic engine
- migrants send home remittances exceeding global foreign aid