Migration to UK
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- Created on: 28-03-16 19:30
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- Migrations
- Migration to UK- MEDC
- facts
- 1st May 2004, eight eastern european countries joined the EU
- estimates show that 500,000 are thought to have arrived in the UK
- 63% from Poland
- impacts on UK
- 82% aged 18-34 so they reversed the UKs ageing population
- reduced dependancy ration by 8%
- they made the economy more flexible and responsive
- they filled jobs the local population didnt want- 26% in distibution, hotels, catering
- increased demand for cheap housing, migrants tend to cluster Eg Peterborough
- new shops Eg polish specialised shop injected culture to areas
- generated revenue- over 10% of government tax
- minimal friction as same european culture Eg more attended church
- peterborough
- 10% of housholds have no one at home that speaks english
- Nearly 40 per cent of pupils do not speak English as a first language
- amazon distribution warehouse employs thousands of workers, most from Central and Eastern Europe.
- facts
- Migration to UK- MEDC
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