Objectives: To research the reasons why people emigrate To understand that Britain has a long history of immigration

Immigration to Britain Using your own knowledge list as many different groups of settlers to Britain. Can you think of the reasons they came? Use page 330 and the booklet to add some more. Highlight the push factors and the pull factors in different colours.

As we go through the slides you need to come up with some questions which would be answered by the information.

Immigration from There were 3 main waves of immigration. First wave took place because of the Second World War and the events leading up to it – prisoners of war, Jews, Poles and other Europeans escaping persecution and Irish who formed the largest group.

1948 British Nationalities Act The appeal for new workers was aimed at white Europeans. However, the British Nationalities Act of 1948 gave British citizenship (and passports) to millions of citizens from the Empire. This gave them the right to enter Britain and stay for as long as they liked. SS Empire Windrush The steamship SS Empire Windrush brought the first large group of migrant workers from the Caribbean to Britain in This event has acquired a huge symbolic significance as the first step towards today’s multicultural society.

Second wave This took place once the war was over. Britain urgently needed a large number of workers to help rebuild war- damaged cities, to run the London Transport system and to work in the new NHS. Recruitment offices were set up in Ireland, in refugee camps and in the West Indies. Nearly a million Irish workers lived in Britain and around 250,000 Caribbean immigrants arrived between 1955 and s immigrants came from India, Pakistan, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Cyprus and parts of Africa.

The Third Wave The third wave came in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Immigration was of mainly Asian people from India and Pakistan Hold on to your questions for a quiz later.

Copy this diagram Why did Caribbean immigration increase in the 1950s Jobs and better prospects Send money home to help Their extended families Escape poor housing, poor wages, poor healthcare and poor education system Escape natural disasters Tradition of migrant work USA restricted immigration 1956 London Transport started a scheme in which they paid fares and the workers paid out of their wages over a number of months