Foreigners in a Foreign Land
There are numerous foreigners dwelling in foreign countries with different purposes and for different durations of time. Those foreigners include sojourners, expatriates, immigrants and refugees. The sojourners usually 7)________ for a short period of time, such as tourists. The tourist might spend from one to two days up to several months. Some students, like tourists, might stay for short courses that can take days, weeks or months, while many students stay between one to five years for 8)_______ courses. The expatriates including businessmen, workers, teachers or 9)_______ usually stay according to yearly contracts which may be renewed. There are expatriates who leave after their first or second contract, and there are those who never want to leave because they have 10)_______ and decide to settle down in that country. Nowadays there are more people who belong to the last two groups-the immigrant and the refugee. The immigrants are usually economically 11)___________ to stay in a foreign land. Political reasons might also motivate the immigrants to leave their 12)_________. Obviously, the immigrants might stay for an 13)__________ time until the economic or political situation is better. Last, the 14)_________, unlike the immigrant, have little or no country to go back. Some refugees have no country to go back to; some will be killed if they go back. They have sought 15)_________ in the new country where they are likely to spend the rest of their lives.