UK Migration Patterns Flashcards

1
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1950

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556000 Black Caribbean(Windrush)
Filled postwar worker shortage - rebuilding
Workers, NHS Doctors, underground drivers

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2
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1960

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Pakistani (750000) and Indian (1mil)

Initially only men

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3
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196(5)

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Bangladeshi (280000)

Expanded rapidly in 80s - families

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4
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196(7)

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Black African (480000)
Former colonies
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5
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197(4)

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20000 Vietnamese refugees

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6
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198(8)

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Ethnic Chinese (243000)
Accelerated from mainland - students
More growth in skills, production, job market - education and training hubs

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7
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1990s

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Conflict - Croatians, Bosnians, Kosovians, Iraqis, Somalis, Zimbabweans

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8
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200(5)

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Opening of EU borders

More Eastern Europeans - Polish

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