Filipacchi "emigrant" category issue 

This is a tricky and interesting matter of definition, which I've been discuss with Obi-Wan Kenobi. We decided to move it over here.  Filipacchi is currently in the category of "French emigrants to the United States." But is Filipachi an "emigrant"? Given that she was an American citizen at birth (because of her mother's American citizenship).

Hope it's okay to print our discussion as a dialogue. (Certainly it's dramatic...)

ME: Here's the legal definition of "immigrant" (and emigrant is just the inverse, of course):

"An Immigrant is a person who has citizenship in one country but who enters a different country to set up a permanent residence. Just entering another country does not make you an immigrant. In order to be an immigrant you must have citizenship in one country, and you must have gone to a different country with the specific intention of living there."

It seems clear that Filipacchi does not qualify as an immigrant, since she already had citizenship. For this reason she can't be an emigrant either.

Agreed? I don't want to revert your edit myself - as it looks like an editing war; I'll leave it to you to do the reversion, if we're in accord here. 

OBI-WAN-KENOBI: I don't think emigrant is a legal term in our category structure - it really is more about what happened. She grew up in paris, speaking french, and then moved, leaving paris behind, for NY. I think calling that emigrant is fair - regardless of citizenship status.
emigrant: "a person who leaves one place or country, esp a native country, to settle in another " Also, you can be an immigrant and an emigrant at the same time - it's really a question of perspective. 

ME: Yes, you in fact HAVE to be an immigrant and an emigrant at the same time. You can't be one or the other. Hence the definition of "immigrant" is all that matters. My problem is that to call Filipacchi an "emigrant" is in fact *incorrect*, looked at from the perspective of the US government. It doesn't have to be a legal matter - I'm simply regarding this as the most rigorous definition that we have. This is taken from a legal site that advises UK citizens on how to emigrate to America:

"The US government considers an immigrant to be someone who is not a US citizen, but who has received clearance to permanently reside in the US."
http://www.immigrationassist.co.uk/immigration/us-immigration/ 

What this suggests is that it is logically impossible to emigrate to the US if you are already a US citizen. 

OBI-WAN-KENOBI: Emigrant doesn't have the same legal definition - and it arguably applies, because "france" was just as much "her country" as the US is. we'd probably best bring this to her talk page in any case.

That's where it stands now. Currently she is in the emigrant category.  Thoughts?