

OK thanks, I thought I could use emigrant as a more objective option. Also the key point to me was always that for some reason they had to or chose to leave their home country.
It’s kind of irrelevant that they came here as opposed to somewhere else in that context.
But I guess I’ll just have to conclude English kind of sucks in this regard.
To be fair we don’t have the objective option in my language either, but at least they are more obvious. like (in)migrant, and (out)migrant. I would really like to have a more objective option. I don’t know why, but for some reason I really dislike the word immigrant. It’s like it’s more important that they came HERE! Then the fact that they had to leave their own country.
PS:
I am from Denmark as many generations back as I know of. So it’s not a personal thing, it’s more a philosophical thing to me.