UK Immigration Is More Popular Than Ever
For well over one hundred years from mid eighteenth century up to about the mid nineteen forties, over one third of the world's population lived under and was ruled by the British Empire.
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UK Immigration Is More Popular Than Ever
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For well over one hundred years from mid eighteenth century up to about the mid nineteen forties, over one third of the world’s population lived under and was ruled by the British Empire.
After World War II a large majority of immigrants to the UK were from former or current colonies that, while they had been granted independence, still chose to move to and live in the United Kingdom. Among those who chose UK immigration were many from India and the Caribbean.
In 1948 the British Nationality act was passed which allowed some eight hundred million who had already moved to the UK to live and work with out need of a visa. These were mostly people who capably filled the gap in unskilled jobs in the UK labour market at that time.
In 1962 the Commonwealth Immigrants Act passed which placed restrictions regarding immigration into the UK. Public sentiment concluded that enough peoples from other countries had already moved to the British Isles and there was need to restrict others from making that move. Newer restrictions required the new immigrants have jobs before arriving and to have skills which are in need in the UK. And for the very first time, this Act made it a requirement that migrants have some sort of connection with the UK such as by birth or relationship to UK citizens. If they had no such substantial connection, then their application for UK nationality would be denied unless they met with the discretion of national authorities. Only those who hold work permits or had family ties to the UK could gain entry after passing of the Immigration Act.
Immigration can be considered a push and pull situation in which the push factor means reasons for citizens of one country to wish or need to move to another land for economic reasons such as better jobs and housing. The pull factor, on the other hand, relates when countries need new blood, new qualified workers for skilled labour jobs are given the incentive of higher wages and better housing than their own land could ever offer. This, of course, hurts those underdeveloped countries as they lose many good citizens to better prospects in other more advanced countries like the UK and North America.
Another consideration in the increase of UK immigrants is travel is much simpler and quicker than it was during the past few centuries. Where it used to take many weeks to travel across the Atlantic Ocean or other great oceans and bodies of water, today airplane travel takes it down to a matter of hours. However, many who chose to migrate from impoverished countries find themselves being smuggled on board ships with the intention of entering countries where they have more opportunities to better themselves and raise families in a safer, more sanitary environment.
Among reasons for UK immigration, natural disasters, political unrest, and economic factors are the most popular and when there are a large number of them vying for but a few spots to fill in the UK, competition can become stiff among those who choose to make the United Kingdom their new home.
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