The UK Economy and Migration

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The UK Economy and Migration


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Key TermsWhat is meant by:Migration

the movement of people within and

between nations

Immigration

the movement of people into a region or

country

Emigration

the movement of people out of a region

or country

Net migration

the difference between immigration and

emigration


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WHY MOVE?People move as a result ofPUSH and PULL factors

PUSH factors drive people out

PULL factors lure immigrants to another country

Persecution for religious, ethnic and otherreasons - PUSH

Desire for a better life - PUSH

Natural disasters - PUSH

Wish to earn money to send back to ones

family - PUSH

According to the government, the evidence suggests that immigration

contributed positively towards GDP growth by allowing employers greater

choice in a wider labour market, allowing employers to find a better match

between vacancies and available labour.

Migration also brings innovations as UK workers and businesses learn from the

exchange of ideas and experiences with immigrant workers...this leads to new

ways of working and new products and services.
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THE STATISTICSAccording to official UK government estimates, approximately1,500 migrants arrived

to live in the UK every day during 2005.

The same figures suggest that 185,000 more people immigrated into the UK than

emigrated to another country, yielding a net population gain of 500 per day.

While the number arriving from Eastern Europe grew, the numbers of people leaving

the UK has also risen.

In total, 565,000 people arrived in the UK in 2005 saying they intended to stay for at

least a year.

At the same time, 380,000 people left. More than half of the 1,000 people a day who

left the UK were British citizens.

However, after taking into account those who left the UK, the net inflow of people

was 17,000 lower than 2004's record figures.

However, in late August the government also released a major statistics data set thatindicates approximately 1.5 million people had come into the United Kingdom in the

previous two years.

Specifically, just about 1,425,000 people from all countries entered the UK since the

EU-25 expansion of May, 2004
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Argue the following point:

Immigration is a bad thing for the UK and the government

should take steps to limit it

The UK is not endless. It is limited with a limited capacity. Operating near maximum with current

populations we cannot afford any more influx of people. Immigration must be controlled so that thenumbers do not go near the number of people leaving the UK especially in this time of economic crisis

where jobs are limited, people are stressed and the UK economy is in a dire situation with a risk or a triple

dip recession. Benefits available to those unable to work and times are just tough without having to add to

the problem with more migrants coming in from abroad.

We need to care for the people currently in the UK. Allow us to recover. Allow the current unemployed to

have the limited jobs available rather then essentially have them stolen from patient and hard working

citizens already based in the UK, especially as they will be benefitting without having contributed one centfrom an already squeezed and pushed to the limit to for example the NHS healthcare which is barely able

to take care for their current patients without having to deal with extra people especially since next year

the ban from citizens from countries in the East like Romania to enter the UK and live will be banned

hence there is already a major issue to as the number of people coming and in and taking advantage of our

stretched system.

Yes it could bring in skilled migrants and freshen up the work force, but with over 1 million unemployed I

daresay we have enough skilled to last us a while without having to add those numbers and tolling up thebill to the tax payer for benefits paid to unemployed etc.

Therefore I thoroughly suggest capping the immigration into the UK. We afford anymore unemployed. We

cannot afford any more coming in stealing the jobs from our current UK inhabitants and having a lower

wage offered making it financially impossible to beat. We cannot allow our system to become even worse

trying to delve limited resources trying to correct the issue in a few years rather than solving the problem

now and investing that hard earned cash into the UK infrastructure and education.

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