Question

Please Explain in Depth. What are the Major Challenges that Face Expatriates While Living Abroad?

Answer 1

Expatriates are individuals who living outside of their own country because of work and it is obvious that as they have to live in a foreign country, there are some major challenges that they will experience. The major challenges experienced by employees are:

1. Cultural differences - This is a very obvious scenario in which an individual most of the time will experience issues because there will be very less chance that they get deployed to a country which has similar culture like their native country. This is an issue which is actually difficult to deal with and in the initial stages it is very much tough with time the situation may get easy.

2. Language - This may or may not turn out to be a major issue because today most of the nations speak English to quite some extent and it considered quite as one of the widely spoken languages but there are also countries where it is difficult to find individuals who are English speaking, Germany is a great example and there are other countries like France, Spain to some extent.

3. Cost Of living - The knowledge about the cost of living in another country may turn out to be an issue but if three country is economically weak then the country may not have high cost of living but if the situation is just contrasting, then cost of living may turn out to be a major issue.

4. Loneliness - This happens generally when the individual is alone residing in the foreign land, hence the individual may feel lonely in the foreign land and this is a situation where the person may feel home sick and various other psychological issues. Loneliness is also considered as one of the primary challenges.

5. Healthcare - This also fits into our list of issues because it may happen that the health of the individual deteriorates in the country and the healthcare system is not advanced and even the medical history of the individual is unknown to the available physician and this may cause a serious issue managing health of the individual.