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The UK Economy and Migration

Key Terms
What 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

WHY MOVE?
People move as a result of PUSH and PULL factors PUSH factors drive people out PULL factors lure immigrants to another country

Persecution for religious, ethnic and other reasons - 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.

THE STATISTICS
According to official UK government estimates, approximately 1,500 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 that indicates 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

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 the numbers 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 cent from 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 the bill 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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