expatriate community
Foreign residents abroad
An expatriate community is a social network of people living outside their home country, typically in a shared location abroad.
These communities form around national origin, language, or profession, providing mutual support and cultural continuity: The American expatriate community in Paris has its own schools and social clubs.
Members often maintain stronger ties to their homeland than to the surrounding local culture.
- homesicknessLonging for one's dwelling
- culture shockDisorientation from unfamiliar ways
- diasporaScattered population sharing origins
- cross-cultural communicationInteraction spanning distinct societies
- belongingnessNeed for social inclusion
nostalgia · relocation services · acculturation · dual identity · multiculturalism · cultural assimilation · cultural preservation · heritage celebration · mother tongue · language immersion · Beijing · rootless · Tuscany · enclave · bubble · international school · trailing spouse · visa
- ethnic communitiesethnic enclave, minority group, Chinatown, Little Italy, Little Tokyo
- Literary ParisLost Generation, Ernest Hemingway, Gertrude Stein, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Hemingway
- Russian diasporaexpatriates, expats, emigres, immigrants, ethnic Russians
- Spanish diasporaGalicians, Catalans, immigration waves, chain migration, economic migrants
- cross-border marriageinternational marriage, cross-cultural marriage, foreign spouse, intermarriage, mixed marriage
- cultural exchangecultural exchange, cross-cultural, student exchange, intercultural, exchange program
expatriate communitynative population
Original residents of place
indigenous community · local residents · locals · nationals · citizens