Category: Expatriate Trends

HSBC has released its second report in the Expat Explorer research. Now in its second year, Expat Explorer is the largest survey of its kind, surveying over 3,100 expats from more than 50 countries. Expat...

In 2004, a great fear took over France, as the entry of the Eastern European countries announced the arrival of the “Polish plumber”. France’s social system would be submerged by cheap workers, who would...

A surprising amount non-Spanish language newspapers are printed in Spain for expatriates living there. The British like their papers; The Sun, The Daily Mail and The Express all have editions printed in Spain. So does...

Nearly one billion – or one out of seven – people worldwide are migrants. Though the phenomenon of migration is as old as mankind, it still suffers a negative connotation. Many expats find themselves...

Recent research from Halifax International is showing France as the most popular destination for Brits moving abroad: Most Popular Destinations for British Expatriates Rank Country Share of total (%) 1st France 16 2nd Spain...

Expat employees are not the only ones feeling the financial repercussions of the recession. Faced with slippery currency values, employers have made fundamental changes to the way they calculate their expat employees’ salaries. According...

We have compiled some statistics on German expatriates. Our new overview of the German expatriate market compiles information on the total number of German expats, their professional background and their motivation for moving abroad....

Many people have the impression that expatriates earn a lot of money. In fact, tensions are sometimes created in subsidiaries of large companies where the locals may be earning a lot less than half...

HSBC International today released the first results from their 2009 Expat Explorer survey (download a copy here HSBC Bank International Expat Explorer Survey 2009). It makes chilling reading as it clearly shows that the...