And don't get me started on "economic migrants" BS!
"Economic migrant" is the correct term for an "expat". I am an economic migrant, born in Poland, living in Iceland, and proud of it.
I hate the term "expat" with a passion of a thousand suns. I find it racist, used to artificially differentiate between rich, predominantly white, Northern-born people moving freely and comfortably wherever they want; and destitute, predominantly BIPOC people forced to risk their lives to secure livelihood.
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There is this myth that if borders are opened, suddenly a deluge of people will come and somehow flood the local community.
Iceland is tiny, 350k people. It's in the EEA. Everyone in the EU can just move here and start a new life, no work visa required — including from countries that rightwingers used to love scaring people in the North and West with: Poland, Bulgaria, Romania.
Guess what? No deluge. No flood of economic migrants. People don't want to uproot their lives willy-nilly!
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