What Does Immigration Really Mean?

INTRODUCTION

What does immigration actually mean? Immigration is a term which is used to describe the process of moving people form one country to another in order to live there permanently.

In the past years, massive immigration in the United Kingdom started. The main reasons why people decided to immigrate to Britain were job opportunities, some of them were running away from religious persecution and poverty others were coming to the United Kingdom because of educational and economic motives.

The United Kingdom experienced many changes, which were caused by immigration. This essay will concentrate on the main alternations of socio-economic environment. These will be divided into three groups depending on what kind of effect they have

These effects put British people into disadvantage, one sample is that immigrants are given priority in housing benefits from government.

The last type of outcomes from immigration into the United Kingdom are the neutral consequence, some examples are multiculturalism and the percentage of international students studying at universities. This category includes aftereffects, which have advantages but also disadvantages for British people.

The last section of the essay will give more information about what British people think about immigration into their country. Some people are fine with immigrants in their country, while the others are agains them and want from government to regulate number of immigrants coming to the United Kingdom every year.HOUSING

Eric Pickles agree with the move which was taken in order to make sure that British people will be given priority in housing from government.
He also said that public is not satisfied how immigrants are given priority in housing benefits over local

This was discovered by Equality and Human Rights Commission. This study also found that more than 60% of immigrants in past 5 years have their own rented flats and just 11% got houses from government.

Commonly spread idea about government housing British people think that immigrants are more likely to get a council house than them.UNEMPOLYMENT

Jonathan Portes, director of the National Institution for Social and Economic Research (NIESR), disagree with the statement, which was published in the Daily Mail, that when one British person loose his or her job work two immigrants will get one.
NIESR claims that the hight number of unemployed people is due to financial crisis and it has very little or nothing with immigrants. This was also proved by National Insurance registration.

The government’s figures illustrate that the number of employed British-born people increased slightly over 100,000. The statistics explain that the high number of working immigrants (660,000) increased in order to cover missing people in labors. Another data from government shows that the number of employees dropped by 3% in both cases, British and non-British