1) Introduce these documents (Topic, source, year…) What kind of charts? (Read the next sheet)
These documents deal about immigration in the UK and come from the Office National Statistic. They were published by BBC news. The first document informs us of arriving and leaving in the UK in 2017. It is a bar chart.
The second document is a histogram where we can discover nationalities of EU migrants living in the UK in 2016.
The last document is a chart where we can compare reasons to come in the UK from migrants from the EU or from outside the EU, in 2016.
2) What can you notice if you compare arriving/leaving In the UK. Try to be specific.
Immigration to the UK is estimated to be 578,000 – 2 20,000 EU citizens, 285,000 non-EU citizens and 73,000 British citizens.
At the same time, an estimated 334,000 people left the country: 125,000 British, 130, 000 EU and 80,000 non-EU citizens. The net migration is positive.
3) Where do European immigrants come from? (Doc. 2) How can you explain these figures?
They come from the East European countries, which joined the EU in 2004 such as Poland (1.000) or Lithuania (200,000) or in 2007 such as Romania (340,000). They gained the right to freedom of movement and the access to the British labour market
The Polish community is important since WWII because the UK welcomed the polish government in exile (1939-1991).
They come from the original West European EU countries such as Ireland (325,00), Portugal (210,000) or Spain (180,000).
Most of them come
The Irish community is important since the XIXth Century (Hungry Forties) and Ireland is close. (6 millions of Britons have an Irish grandfather or grandmother).
4) What can you notice if you compare reasons people come to the UK? (Doc. 3)
The reasons for coming to the UK vary, but most of the EU migrants who came in 2016 said their main reason for coming was either to take a job they had secured before they arrived or to look for a job. On the other hand, most of the non-EU migrants said they had come to study, join family members already in the UK or accompany family members.
