Why do we live abroad? Internations team provides good and periodic reports. In this report they mention about...
In this report they mention about the reasons to live abroad. As you can imagine there are not many reliable and easy to reach reports about expatriates. I believe this is a great source of useful information.
Here are the reasons for living abroad:
1- The Foreign Assignee
2- The Career Expat
3- The Foreign recruitee
4- The Student
5- The Travelling spouse
6- The Romantic
7- The Family Expat
8- The Dream destination Expat
9- The greener pastures expat
10- The Adventurer
As the number of mobile people and families increase, these reports gained more importance. These top reasons very well explain the change in peoples lives. Before 2008 world economic crisis, people were less mobile and expat contracts were limited in number. After the crisis, some the roles and organisational structures changed to a more lean and global way dramatically. While support functions continue to decrease in number after establishment of regional/ global shared service centers, these changes also paved the way for international mobility.
Now, IoT and start up boost eased to work and live flexible.
In fact expatriation is still based on a specific job contract which needs to be kept confidential. However, you may see lots of companies and people asking this question to make sure whether you plan to stay longer or not. In daily jargon, being an expat turned out to be someone who lives and works abroad. In the future it looks like so many people will be expats! or a new jargon will be adopted instead of expats : flexpat !
Source:
https://www.internations.org/expat-insider/2016/ten-types-of-expats