One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This

by Omar El Akkad

(In the hierarchy of migration, “expat” is largely reserved for white Westerners who leave their homes for another country, usually because the money’s better there. When other people do this, they might be deemed “aliens” or “illegals” or at best “economic migrants.”

It is a hallmark of failing societies, I’ve learned, this requirement that one always be in possession of a valid reason to exist.