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To think I'm an immigrant?

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user1466714206 · 23/06/2016 21:47

would just like to add a disclaimer that I'm not trying to work this out because I'm worried about being an immigrant as if it is a bad thing, I am genuinely curious.
I was born in a European country after my parents (both British) met there while working. They moved back to England with me and my younger sister when I was about 6. I have a UK passport and im a British citizen, but am I technically an immigrant? The whole EU debate has just brought up the topic between me and my friends and I know that the definition of an immigrant is someone who goes to live in another country, but does it still count if your parents are from the country you move to?

OP posts:
Pimmmms · 24/06/2016 10:22

I'm an immigrant, I'm the daughter of immigrants, and the granddaughter of immigrants.

When I came to the UK I had to do so as an economic migrant, and had no access to any benefits at all, and had to jump through a hell of a lot of hoops to get here. DS1, who was born here, had no right of citizenship or right to remain/return to the UK.

The UK ALREADY prohibits lots of people from entering the UK as immigrants.

lljkk · 24/06/2016 10:39

OP qualifies as British from birth situation (British parents), parents are native British (I gather), and OP grew up in UK from a young age, so I struggle to think of OP as an immigrant.

I grew up outside UK & naturalised here; my children are as foreign as Winston Churchill was.

crazywriter · 24/06/2016 11:58

We have similar circumstances OP. I'm non-British born to British parents. Hold dual nationality. So I am British and an immigrant for the non British born figures at the same time. That's the way I look at it.

corythatwas · 24/06/2016 12:32

What about somebody who was adopted from abroad as a baby by British parents?

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