migration

Migration is a very old process; it started when people moved from one area to another, because of exhausted natural resources. Nowadays people have many different reasons to immigrate such as economical, political, religious and others. Migration can be of temporary or permanent. Temporary migrations may be annual, seasonal or sometimes even of a shorter period, for example, daily. The number of people who migrate from their native countries is getting higher and higher each year. These people can have positive or negative impacts. For example they can share each other’s culture and background, but sometimes they can damage host country’s cultures and the environment, because the immigrants can have different point of view. The best reason for migration is job opportunities; also, because of medical treatment and education, they can be much better in developed countries. Immigration can substantially improve people’s living conditions. However, not all of the UK population is appreciated with a high inflow of immigrant and it causes a lot of discussion. This essay focuses on positive and negative impacts of immigrants on the UK.

Many people think that immigrants have only bad impact on the economy. The first thing that needs to be said that it is not true, because immigrants despite of negative impacts have a lot of positive impacts on the economy. UK is one of the most attractive countries for immigrants. There has always been some migration to and from Britain. Until the 1950s there was a relatively small immigration into Britain. From 1950s until 1983 immigration continued at the rate of half a million acceptances for settlement every decade, but from 1983 the net inflow has grown steadily. The total net immigration from out...

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...elp to create new jobs, they can work in different sectors, also they are more likely to work in unskilled jobs than the UK-born citizens. Most of the EU immigrants are of working age, they are students or people that are looking for a job. EU-born workers earned £39 billion in total in 2012. Immigrants have a positive impact on the Real GDP. Government can’t completely control migration, because always will be people who are moving in or out the UK. Tighter immigration controls will result in a loss of 2 per cent of GDP by 2050, £60 billion in real terms and without migrants from the EU government borrowing would be 0,5% higher. So, the government can do only one thing-try to manage immigration to reduce bad impacts of it. In conclusion, high skilled immigrants have a big positive impact on the UK economy and the UK is needed in highly skilled and educated workers.