Five Stages of Bureaucratic Grief for Those Living Abroad

Death has nothing on the East Asian administrative state.

Andrew Johnston
The Expat Chronicles
4 min readFeb 23

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Photo by Yu Kato on Unsplash

Moving to certain countries is a protracted administrative nightmare.

East Asia is worse than most in this regard. It is a region characterized by historical isolationism, ruled over by empires that viewed foreigners as a threat. Those barriers…

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Andrew Johnston
The Expat Chronicles

Writer of fiction, documentarian, currently stranded in Asia. Learn more at www.findthefabulist.com.