Expatriate
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An expatriate (in abbreviated form, expat) is a person temporarily or permanently residing in a country and culture other than that of the person's upbringing or legal residence.
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Literary and screen portrayals
Expatriate milieus are the setting of many novels and short stories, including works by:
- James Baldwin (Giovanni's Room)
- J.G. Ballard (Cocaine Nights, Super-Cannes)
- Paul Bowles
- Anthony Burgess (The Malayan Trilogy)
- Joseph Conrad
- Robert Drewe (A Cry in the Jungle Bar)
- Lawrence Durrell
- F. Scott Fitzgerald (Tender is the Night)
- Ford Madox Ford (The Good Soldier)
- E.M. Forster
- Graham Greene
- Ernest Hemingway
- Patricia Highsmith (The Talented Mr. Ripley)
- Michel Houellebecq (Platform)
- Henry James
- Christopher Koch (The Year of Living Dangerously)
- Janice Y. K. Lee (The Expatriates)
- Malcolm Lowry (Under the Volcano)
- W. Somerset Maugham
- George Orwell (Burmese Days)
- Chris Pavone (The Expats)
- Arthur Phillips (Prague)
- Tom Rachman (The Imperfectionists)
- Paul Scott
- Evelyn Waugh (Scoop)
Memoirs of expatriate life include those by authors such as:
- J.G. Ballard (Miracles of Life)
- Bill Bryson (Notes from a Small Island)
- Stephen Clarke (A Year in the Merde)
- Gerald Durrell (My Family and Other Animals)
- Elizabeth Gilbert (Eat, Pray, Love)
- Laurie Lee (As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning)
- Peter Mayle (A Year in Provence)
- Michael Moorcock (Letters from Hollywood)
- Marco Polo (The Travels of Marco Polo)
- Sayyid Qutb (The America That I Have Seen)
Films have also been made about the subject, often dealing with issues of culture shock experienced by expatriates. Examples, grouped by host country, include: {{columns-list|2|
- Austria: The Third Man.
- Cambodia: City of Ghosts.
- China: The Painted Veil.
- France: An American in Paris, Before Sunrise, Charade, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, A Good Year, Killing Zoe, Midnight in Paris, The Moderns, Ninotchka, To Catch a Thief.
- Hong Kong: Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing.
- India: Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, Carry On Up the Khyber, Outsourced, A Passage to India.
- Indonesia: The Year of Living Dangerously.
- Italy: Under the Tuscan Sun.
- Japan: Lost in Translation, Mr. Baseball.
- Morocco: Casablanca, Naked Lunch, The Sheltering Sky.
- Spain: Barcelona, Sexy Beast, Vicky Cristina Barcelona.
- Saudi Arabia: A Hologram for the King.
- Thailand: The Beach, The King and I.
- Uganda: The Last King of Scotland.
- United Kingdom: The Adventures of Barry McKenzie, Straw Dogs.
- United States: Borat, Coming to America, Crocodile Dundee, How To Lose Friends And Alienate People, Leningrad Cowboys Go America.
- Unnamed/various: Before Sunrise and sequels, Eat, Pray, Love; The Ugly American; The Wages of Fear.
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See also
- émigré
- Great Migration
- European migration to America
- American migration to Europe
- Beat Generation
- Lost Generation
- Notable American expatriates
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