1900-2010(4.4 Immigration as a political issue)

Question 1

What was the EEC and when did Britain join?

Answer 1

Europen Economic Community on 1st January 1973

Question 2

What did the Britain membership mean?

Answer 2

> that people from other EU countries were allowed to work and settle here
free movement of trade

Question 3

Why did EU membership cause a rise in immigration?

Answer 3

> because they could travel freely

Question 4

What other factor caused a rise in immigration?

Answer 4

> collapse of communism

Question 5

Why is it significant that immigrants were no longer predominantly living in big cities?

Answer 5

> no shipping industry and migrants went everywhere so in >attitudes changed the cities it had been diverse for a long time and because immigrants began to settle everywhere in countryside as well

Question 6

What happened in 2007 because who joined?

Answer 6

Controls imposed when Romania and Bulgaria joined and they had to have work permits and numbers were restricted for 7 years after they joined the EU

Question 7

How many nations joined in 2004?

Answer 7

10 new nations joined in 2004 and the labour government adopted an open door policy

Question 8

How many people moved to the UK by 2005?

Answer 8

300,000 and the majority from Poland

Question 9

What was the 1993 asylum and immigration appeals act?

Answer 9

1993 and it made the definition of who could be accepted as a refugee much narrower

Question 10

What was the 1996 asylum and immigration appeals act?

Answer 10

1996 it became a criminal offence for employers to hire migrants without a work permit

Question 11

What was the 1999 Immigration and Asylum Act?

Answer 11

1999 replaced welfare benefit for asylum seeker with vouchers to buy food and essentials. They were forced to buy only in certain shops and the amount given each week was barely enough to live on

Question 12

What was the 2002 Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Act?

Answer 12

All those wanting leave to remain, or naturalisation as citizens had to pass a ‘life in the united kingdom’ test

Question 13

What incident changed the world in 2001?

Answer 13

The attack on the World Trade Center in New York-the Twin Towers attack

Question 14

What was the ‘War on Terror’ and when did it start?

Answer 14

> in 2003, the British Parliament voted to join the USA in an invasion of Iraq
George Bush called it the War of Terror with the aim of removing weapons of mass destruction
between 2003 and 2006, there were 151,000 deaths as a result of this war

Question 15

What happend in London on 7th July 2005 and why?

Answer 15

4 suicide bombers killed 52 and injured 700 in terrorist attacks in London
The bombers blamed British involvement in the invasion of Iraq

Question 16

How did Londoners respond to the 2005 attack?

Answer 16

They stressed the unity of citizens across cultures and religions coming together in grief

Question 17

Why did the attack lead to a rise in Islamophobic incidents?

Answer 17

Because of the assumption that because of the minority

Question 18

What are the BNP?

Answer 18

British National Party set up by former members of the National Front and they took up an anti-immigration stance in their campaigns

Question 19

What are the EDL?

Answer 19

English Defence League

Question 20

What tactics did the BNP and the EDL use?

Answer 20

They focused their organised marches through areas with large Muslim populations and groups like Unite Against Facism and Hope Not Hate protested in greater number to show there were more people against them than with them

Question 21

What was the government’s prevent strategy?

Answer 21

In 2011 the governemnt launched it aiming to stop people becoming terrorists and focused on young Muslims-highly controversial

Question 22

What does marginalised mean?

Answer 22

When people are excluded, ignored or treated as if they’re not important

Question 23

What does extremism mean?

Answer 23

Having beliefs that most people think are unreasonable and unacceptable

Question 24

What does divisive mean?

Answer 24

Causing divisions and hositility between people

Question 25

Why was there also a rise in anti-Semitic incidents at this time?

Answer 25

Partly linked to the Israel-Palestine conflict

Question 26

Arguments that support the idea that immigrants have brought benefits to the UK

Answer 26

> migrants have come to the country and become successful Malala, Mo Farah
contribute to the economy by paying taxes
immigrants have often done low skilled, low paying jobs eg hospital cleaning, farming are a benefit to Britain
more migration means a more diverse British community which means more tolerance
aging community so younger people need to pay taxes to pay for the pensions of the older people

Question 27

Arguments that support the idea that immigrants have brough problems to the UK

Answer 27

> migrants who are willing to work for less create tension
pressure on housing, resources, NHS, schools
can sometimes bring attitudes towards women which the UK aren’t used to eg FGM, honour killings