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If they were born in Sweden, they didn't migrate. There seems to be a confusion between immigrant and foreigner.

• tivert 3y ago
  > If they were born in Sweden, they didn't migrate. There seems to be a confusion between immigrant and foreigner. In the US, at least, there's a concept of the "generation" of an immigrant, and only the first generation would be born in a foreign country. So a second (and above) generation immigrant would not have migrated. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigrant_generations https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigrant_generations Also, at least in US English, I feel the term "foreigner" seems less politically correct than "immigrant," and honestly think I've hardly ever heard any native speakers use it. I think they use immigrant or some more specific label (e.g. Canadian, European). Nonnative speakers use "foreigner" a lot more frequently, and sometimes use it in weird ways (e.g. relative to their home country, so calling a native-born American a foreigner).
• dwighttk 3y ago
  you could be born in Sweden... leave, and then migrate into Sweden