Inside a Mind

Tag: immigrant

  • Moving Countries with a Chronic Illness

    I’m a British girl, who has been living in Europe on and off the past three years (we Brits have a weird thing where we don’t always view ourselves as European, but that’s a whole can of Brexity worms). I was living in Spain when I was diagnosed with lupus, and had to quit my…

  • Expat vs Immigrant – Why One and Not the Other?

    Yep, I am allowed to go around calling myself an expat. Doesn’t it sound glamorous – like my days are filled with multilingualism and drinking good wine (and not being totally out of my depth in Spanish and nursing the occasional “oh god what fresh hell is this” hangover, I assure you).   But why do…