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Himeji Castle "You feel small, whether as a courtier or an artist or a historian, because you recognize your insignificance in an...

I've written posts before on the Immigrant versus Migrant versus Expatriate debate ( here and here ). It's not a secret that I thin...

Contempt before investigation is a most perilous mindset and I was skirting the edges of it as I reluctantly picked up   Self-Initiated Expa...

Mawuna Koutonin's article in The Guardian was the perfect catalyst for me to re-examine my own feelings about those words and my own li...

“The gentle reader will never, never know what a consummate ass he can become until he goes abroad." Mark Twain The Innocents Abroad...

What's up with the list thing on the Internet?   "10 Things" this and "Top 20" that.  The format certainly catches o...

"I abhor the term trailing spouse. I think it derogatory in a million different ways. I assume it's the new politically correct way...

I think it is fair to say that the face of American emigration/expatriation today is Eduardo Saverin.  That is the name that consistently co...

"Migration produces diasporas, and diasporas produce migration:  which is the chicken and which is the egg?" Paul Collier Exodu...