What sort of debates or experiences would get overlooked if professionals and researchers ignored these distinctions?
How would you classify the following?
• An assigned expatriate who falls in love with the country (or one of its inhabitants) and decides to stay on, either on local terms and conditions with the same employer or by moving to another employer – an assigned expatriate or a migrant?
• A migrant who decides that the country is not for them, after all, and moves on to another
country – a migrant or a self-initiated expatriate?
Would it matter when it comes to managing that employee in their new status?
In which other ways could an internationally mobile person ‘change category’?