Push and Pull Factors On Immigration From The Carribean.

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	Push and Pull Factors On Immigration From The Carribean.
	Advantages Many hoped to find glory and adventure in Britain . The education system taught about British history and literature. Mohandas Gandhi said that the education allowed to see Britain as the 'land of philosophers and poets, the very centre of civilisation'. Britain had many achievements in business, engineering nd efficent administration. Impressed by the ceremony and pageantry in Britain. Seemed like a land of oppurtunity. There was equality in terms of who ruled society. E.g. whites working in facotries and labouring jobs. Some felt that they were helping the mother country in its times of need. British organisations were also recruiting in the Carribean: Catering The NHS Transport: There was over 4,000 jobs which British workers refused to take and the wages were good for the Jamacians. The workers were able to send money back home.	Disadvantages Jamacia was a backwater where it seemed like nothing ws happening. Trying to run from the problems of social life. By the late 1940's, unemployment became a major problem: The sugar trade, which was the main export, collapsed. Unlike today, there was not tourist trade at the time meaning no money came in for the country. To make the situation worse, hurricanes devastated Jamacia in 1944 and again in 1951. A British investigation study found that Jamacia had poor housing, poor wages, poor health care and an inadequate education system. Whites dominated and ruled society.
	Evaluation To summarise, it seems like the people in the Carribean emigrated in order to find something that was not their country. Such as jobs, good wages or good education. It was even the fact that people who were respected and led decent lives just wanted to feel at home and feel like life was worth living which is something that was hard to get in the Carribean due to the poor standards of living. Or the fact that nothing really happened in Jamacia. Some had both those feelings as some studies showed that a lot of immigrants felt that they were helping the mother country in its times of need while finding new experiences and jobs for themselves.On the note that money was sent back to families in Jamacia. this made immigration look attractive. It added prestige to a family when it is known that one of them is a British worker. Being able walk around with hard-earned money and telling stories of London would have obviously made Britain look very attractive. This is clearly shown by the 115,000 immigrants that came to Britain by 1958.

Push and Pull Factors On Immigration From The Carribean.

Advantages

Many hoped to find glory and adventure in Britain .
The education system taught about British history and literature.
Mohandas Gandhi said that the education allowed to see Britain as the 'land of philosophers and poets, the very centre of civilisation'.
Britain had many achievements in business, engineering nd efficent administration.
Impressed by the ceremony and pageantry in Britain.
Seemed like a land of oppurtunity.
There was equality in terms of who ruled society. E.g. whites working in facotries and labouring jobs.
Some felt that they were helping the mother country in its times of need.
British organisations were also recruiting in the Carribean:
Catering
The NHS
Transport: There was over 4,000 jobs which British workers refused to take and the wages were good for the Jamacians.
The workers were able to send money back home.

Disadvantages

Jamacia was a backwater where it seemed like nothing ws happening.
Trying to run from the problems of social life.
By the late 1940's, unemployment became a major problem:
The sugar trade, which was the main export, collapsed.
Unlike today, there was not tourist trade at the time meaning no money came in for the country.
To make the situation worse, hurricanes devastated Jamacia in 1944 and again in 1951.
A British investigation study found that Jamacia had poor housing, poor wages, poor health care and an inadequate education system.
Whites dominated and ruled society.

Evaluation

To summarise, it seems like the people in the Carribean emigrated in order to find something that was not their country. Such as jobs, good wages or good education. It was even the fact that people who were respected and led decent lives just wanted to feel at home and feel like life was worth living which is something that was hard to get in the Carribean due to the poor standards of living. Or the fact that nothing really happened in Jamacia. Some had both those feelings as some studies showed that a lot of immigrants felt that they were helping the mother country in its times of need while finding new experiences and jobs for themselves.On the note that money was sent back to families in Jamacia. this made immigration look attractive. It added prestige to a family when it is known that one of them is a British worker. Being able walk around with hard-earned money and telling stories of London would have obviously made Britain look very attractive. This is clearly shown by the 115,000 immigrants that came to Britain by 1958.

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Push and Pull Factors On Immigration From The Carribean.