The main difference is that an expatriate is a person who leaves his/her native country and goes to live to another for any kind of reason. The term migrant, or better, immigrant has been lately used to determine those persons that decide to leave their countries, basically for economic reasons. This term is used mainly for people from poor countries who travels to a develop country searching for better living standards and job opportunities that was not able to found in his/her home market.
An expatriate can also leaves his/her country for economic reasons, however the most of the times these reasons are internal job transfers, personal business, studies and why not turism.
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