Introduction
In the most industrialized countries of the world, the rapid increase of immigration has become a contentious issue. As immigration has a great impact on a country’s economy, its benefits and costs have been hotly debated. This essay will focus the economic effects of immigration into United Kingdom.
Large-scale immigration has been a essential factor that contributes to a healthy UK economy and society and is encouraged to flow into UK since a new UK immigration policy published in 1997(D.Colemanand R.Rowthorn,2004 ). According to the office for National Statistics, the net immigration- immigration minus emigration to the UK increased to 237,000 in 2007 (2008). Supporters of immigration …show more content…
Until the end of 2003, the total net increase in the number of people in the employment in the UK was 2.076 million, which include 1.435 million (69%) of native workers and 640,000(31%) of non-native workers (Leberal Conspiracy, 2009). And it showed a significant increase trend after the inflow of migrants from the Eastern European from May 2004 onwards (Ibid). Moreover, a great number of immigrant workers were encouraged to flow into UK by the government to fill the labour shortage after Second World War (J.Wills, K. Datta, Y.Evans, J.Herbert, J.May and C.Mcilwaine, 2010). In order to be sure that immigrants will not displace native workers from their jobs, the most occupations that immigrants take is the most dangerous, dirty, disadvantaged (Ibid). For instance, Darcus Howe(2007) claims that the place he live is mainly settled by eastern Europeans and the men are mainly in building trade as plumber or carpenter, the women are largely work in service sectors, such as small restaurants, dry-cleaners and bars. In other words, immigrants usually do the jobs that native workers are not reluctant to do. Therefore, immigrants do not take away native workers’ jobs but fill the labour …show more content…
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