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IBRAHIM ESSAY'S INTRODUCTION

Implication of migration on the UK economy and society

INTRODUCTION:

The first significant immigration to the UK was in 1066 when the Roman invaded Britain and invited Jews to develop commerce , finance and trade. In 15th century, slave trading lead to brought black men to work in farms and latter in factories during Industrial Revolution until halted in 1800. During the first and second world wars, hundreds of thousands of soldiers came to fought for Britain and some of them stayed in Britain. After the world wars, Britain has lack of workers for this reason government encourage workers to come to work in the UK(BBC news).

There are several reasons lead to increasing number of migrants to the UK such as opportunities of jobs or also escaping from wars or famines. However, those migrants have brought with them to the UK some advantages and disadvantages to the UK. In this essay will discuss the advantages and disadvantages to the UK in terms of economy and society. In the end will discuss how the UK government might maintain its society and develop the economy by migrants

References :

BBC news , short history of immigration , access in 8/5/2010

http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/static/in_depth/uk/2002/race/short_history_of_immigration.stm