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 the map and the booklet to add some more.

I M M I G R A T I O N Objectives: To know the 3 stages of immigration to Britain in the 20th century. To begin to understand some of the reasons why people came to the UK.

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

Immigration from 1939-75 There were 3 main waves of immigration. The 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.

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 1962. Caribbean immigration was boosted due to the USA’s restrictions (1952) and London Transport schemes (1956).

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 Empire Windrush brought the first large group of migrant workers from the Caribbean to Britain in 1948. This event has acquired a huge symbolic significance as the first step towards today’s multicultural society

The Third Wave The third wave came in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Immigration was of mainly Asian people from India and Pakistan Increasingly those coming to Britain were women and children joining family members already in the country. The steady stream of Asian migrants to Britain was boosted by two events affecting Asians in Kenya and Uganda in 1967 and 1972.

Quiz, quiz, trade. The idea of this is to make as many trades as you can. Ask each other your questions and surrender your card if the question is answered correctly. If you fail to answer the question then you leave empty handed!

Copy this diagram Jobs and better prospects immigration increase in the 1950s? Why did 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. 1952 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.