polish to uk
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- Created on: 01-02-15 12:36
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- Polish migration to the UK
- Situation in UK
- Between 1993+2003 around 61,000 migrants per year
- 125,000 by 2004
- 200,000 by 2007
- Polish born population of UK went from 75,000 to 532,000
- What caused increased flow of Polish migrants to UK?
- Social
- Move to live with family
- Go to UK to go to Uni/Study
- Communities in London and other cities make it easy to settle in
- Economic
- unemploy-ment rate in Poland= 20% in 2004
- Unemployment rate in UK= 5% in 2004
- Minimum wage in UK is almost double the average wage in Poland
- Political
- May 2004, Poland and 7 other easter European countries join the EU- can immigrate w/o visa
- Jan 2006, 263,000 new migrants had applied for work permits
- Social
- Positive impacts
- On UK
- incomes and taxes and spending on goods improve economy and services by Poles
- Poles take less desirable jobs
- Gains skilled labour
- Understand other cultures
- growth in ethnic retailing
- On Poland
- Reduce unemployment in Poland
- Returning migrants bring new skills
- Send remittances home to reinvest into Polish economy
- Population destinty is reduced in Poland
- On UK
- Negative Impacts
- On UK
- Polish workers increase competition for employment and have driven down wages
- Dominancce of males is reinforced
- aspects of cultural identity are lost
- Costs of educating migrants
- over-dependence on some industries on migrant labour
- On Poland
- racism due to british jobs for british workers
- conflict between local communities
- Social tension due to segregation, language barriers adn suspision
- disproportionate no. of females left behind
- On UK
- Situation in UK
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