Immigration and Emigration

Eastern European Immigrants since 2004

• Around 1 million people moved from the new EU member states by 2008 but around half have since left the UK

• Poles still represent a substantial proportion of the population in UK cities.

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• The Poles are Coming - part1 of 7 (BBC documentary)

• How has it been made possible for the Poles to come to the UK?

• How many Poles have moved to the UK?

• How many eastern Europeans have moved to Peterborough?

• What jobs have the Eastern Europeans done since moving to Peterborough?

• What is so good about having Polish workers at Stamford Stone works?

• Initially, men moved to the UK as single men living in rented accommodation provided by recruitment agencies such as Advance Personnel.

• Within a year or so.......

• St Mary’s Catholic Primary School (Crewe also affected): “ I assumed initially that the handful who’d contacted us would be the only ones we’d be assimilating into the school. But it didn’t stop.”

• 23 Polish children had however integrated well.

• Adam Kolaninski (Crewe) trained teacher in Poland couldn’t find work there.

• Made oven ready pizzas on a production line earning 5/6 times average polish salary.

Emigration

• The rate of departure in the UK has been so great it has only been masked by immigration.

• 2007 Emigrants• 400,000 of which 207,000 British Citizens.• 2007 Immigrants• 510,000 foreigners moved in the UK for

1/more years.

• Feb 27th 2008

• Almost half of the eastern European immigrants have moved out of the UK or have seriously thought about it.

• Why?

• Almost 1/10 Brits currently live abroad. (Brits abroad 2006)

1.3million in 761,000 in678,000 in

Why do Brits move abroad?

How far is Britain a multicultural society

• Stick in table – What are the political repercussions of increased religious diversity?

• Homework

• Define ethnic minority• Pick out key features of the UK population by ethnic origin

2001 (www.statistics.gov.uk)

• Examine the types of jobs done by ethnic minority groups.• Has there been much social mobility?