relocant

plural relocants

1. uncommonchiefly non-native speakers' EnglishA person who has relocated; an emigre.

   […] and some 'relocants' have already moved back or to another country while others also frequently relocate back and forth between their country of origin, Georgia / Turkey, and perhaps even other countries (Kostenko et al., 2023).

   2025 January 9, Shahamak Rezaei, International Talent Management in Times of Crisis: China and International Comparisons, Edward Elgar Publishing, →ISBN, page 72

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   But Indrapramit was a relocant: all his family was in a village somewhere up near Mumbai. He had no people here, and so Ferron felt it was her responsibility as his partner to look out for him. At least, that was what she told herself.

   2013 October 23, Elizabeth Bear, “In the House of Aryaman, a Lonely Signal Burns”, in The Year's Top Short SF Novels 3, AudioText

   […] while other blogs and media are created by the so-called "relocants" (those who left Russia where they were not able to work as journalists any more due to their precarious status). These communication channels are especially popular in the diaspora where it is easier to access them[…]

   2023 December 22, Olga Solovova, Sabina Vakser, Russian as a Transnational Language: Resonance, Remembrance, Renewal, Taylor & Francis, →ISBN, page 155

   A minority of Russian relocants were former citizens of Kazakhstan or had some ties to Kazakhstan , such as extended family or parents who used to live in Kazakhstan before 1991 or 1995 when mass out-migration of Kazakhstani Russians took place[…]

   2025 March 31, Diana T. Kudaibergen, What Does It Mean to Be Kazakhstani?: Power, Identity and Nation-Building, Hurst Publishers, →ISBN