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Impacts on country of origin
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Impacts on host country
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Impacts on migrants
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Positive
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1.
Less
pressure on their resources
2.
Will
aim to raise standards of living back home
3.
Better
living conditions for families as people send back money
4. Migrants can return with new skills
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1.
£2.5
billion was contributed to the economy annually by the immigrants.
2. Filled a skills gap, such as in the
unskilled sector.
3.
They
contributed 0.5 to 1% of the UK’s economic growth in 2005 and 2006.
4.
80% of
migrants are working people between ages 18 and 35-National Insurance contributions helped the UK cope with an
ageing population.
5.
Migration
had helped to prevent the rapid rise in oil prices from causing a damaging surge of inflation, which
allowed interest rates to remain lower than they would have been.
6.
The cost of
burrowing and of mortgages would be 0.5% higher if not for migrants.
7. Increase in church
attendance- Polish are mostly Catholics
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1.
Earn four
or five times more than in Poland
2.
Better
education for children
3.
Better
access to healthcare- improvement in health
4.
Earn more
money to look after parents or children
5.
Improvement
in living conditions
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Negative
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1.
Less
skilled workers as they seek employment abroad
2.
Loss of
employment base
3.
Imbalance
in society as its mostly men who leave
4.
Many
families left behind without husbands, fathers etc.
5.
People
of working age move out reducing the size of the country’s potential
workforce
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1.
High
proportion of the wages are sent back to Poland
2.
Exploitation
of workers by unscrupulous employers
3.
Tensions
in areas due to large scale immigration
4.
Increased
pressures on education placed by children of immigrants
5.
427,000
migrant workers bring with them 36,000 dependants (spouse and children)
6.
Additional
stress on the NHS
7. Higher demand for housing leading to higher rents
8. UK govt. facing demands for increased
immigration controls
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6.
Anti-Polish
graffiti on the streets on a number of UK cities.
7.
Isolated
incidents of abuse and attacks on migrant workers: ex. Bricks thrown at their
homes
8.
Some
perceived to be taking their jobs so treated with less respect.
9. Cost of living is greater
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