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.

YouTube 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 Emigrants 400,000 of which 207,000 British Citizens Immigrants 510,000 foreigners moved in the UK for 1/more years.

Feb 27 th 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 in 678,000 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 ( Examine the types of jobs done by ethnic minority groups. Has there been much social mobility?