@mekkaokereke finally, there's this whole separate racist as fsck dimension of quote-unquote expats.
Somehow Black and Brown folks coming North to pick fruit nobody wants to pick are "economic migrants stealing jobs", but white dudes (like myself) going South to do high-paying jobs in local-but-externally-funded NGOs or local branches of huge multinationals are "expats."
I loathe this term. If anyone is an "economic migrant", it's the white expats hogging jobs local professionals should get.