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As with most travel and retirement articles in a US/UK newspaper, the target audience for this piece is white people with a US/UK or other rich-country passport
by hilux 3y ago
As with most travel and retirement articles in a US/UK newspaper, the target audience for this piece is white people with a US/UK or other rich-country passport.
Which is fine. Just recognize these articles for what they are - part of the entertaining filler that makes up most of the paper - and not some hard-hitting analytical piece on emerging global migration patterns!
- adastra22 3y agoI don’t think race enters into this? In any case the problem remains: how do you get a non-tourist visa for the country you want to move to? US/UK/EU passport holders still have this issue (except for the examples in the article that are within Europe).
- hilux 3y agoRace absolutely enters into it - the states (in the US) and countries recommended in the Travel section are often much less friendly to non-white visitors. Basically, race is ignored, when at a practical level (for non-white people) it can't be. To answer your question about visas - it is country-dependent. Some countries offer Digital Nomad visas or other long-term non-permanent visas. I agree with you that it's another big omission of the article. Which all adds up to make this a fluff piece.
- adastra22 3y agoI phrased that badly. What I meant is that your ability to emigrate shouldn’t depend on the color of your skin, though obviously it could impact your experience greatly.
- codersfocus 3y agoIf you haven’t looked at the news about the crises in US and EU, there are many non white people with non rich country passports migrating as well.