An optimum level for immigration | Migration Watch UK
The Home Secretary has recently suggested that an optimum level for immigration might be established. A Migrationwatch research paper (Read) suggests some criteria. Immigration is of long term benefit to the economy only if it raises the overall level of productivity; otherwise, it simply adds to the pressure on infrastructure and public services. Migrationwatch therefore […]
Selection criteria for immigrant workers
Summary1. The government has toned down its claims that migration brings significant economic benefits to the UK. It now claims only that migrants cause a small but positive increase to gross domestic product per capita. 2. However, if dependent children are taken into account, this small positive increase becomes a small decrease. In other words, […]
Numbers Matter. It is time for mainstream politics to debate the scale of British immigration | Migration Watch UK
Writing in the latest edition of Prospect magazine Bob Rowthorn, Professor of Economics at Cambridge University, highlights the impact of migration on the composition of our society if it were to continue at the 2004 level of 223,000 net immigration. The UK’s population would reach 74 million by 2051 and would continue rising strongly thereafter. Our population […]
The Multi-Identity Society England and Immigration. By Hazhir Teimourian. Harvard International Review, July 2006 | Migration Watch UK
Mr Teimourian is a member of the Advisory Council of Migration Watch UK. He is a writer on Middle Eastern history and politics. Born in 1940 in the Kurdish region of western Iran Mr Teimourian came to the UK in 1959 for his higher education. He stayed on and has spent the last 35 years […]
The Need for Immigration by David Frost, Commentary, Finance Times, July 23, 2006 | Migration Watch UK
A defence of businesses employing migrant workers from the director-general of the British Chambers of Commerce. Click here to read this article.
Migration Watch Response to ITEM Club Report on the “Benefits” of East European Immigration | Migration Watch UK
A report out today by Migrationwatch suggests that the recent ITEM Club report on the “benefits of the new immigration” from Western Europe was far more negative than first realised. (Read Report) It pointed to the loss of 50,000 jobs by British workers by 2010 with virtually no benefit to the host community. Commenting, Sir Andrew Green, […]
Potential immigration from Romania and Bulgaria
Summary1. Romania and Bulgaria are due to join the EU on 1 January 2007. 2. Labour market transitional arrangements will be virtually the same as for the first round of East European candidate countries. 3. Their combined population is nearly 30 million and their unemployment rates are 8% (Romania) and 10% (Bulgaria). Bulgaria has 700,000 […]
MW38 : Item club on ‘Benefits’ of East European immigration | Migration Watch UK
Summary1. This report only addresses 1/3 to 1/4 of foreign immigration. It assumes that the workers have no dependants. Even so, it finds only a very small benefit to the host community of about 1 per head per week. A small allowance for dependants reduces this to zero. The main effect is to hold down […]
£2.5bn Immigrant contribution claim is yet another ‘dodgy dossier’ | Migration Watch UK
Repeated Government claims that immigrants contribute £2.5bn more to the British economy in taxes than they receive in benefits and state services have been exposed as entirely false. Instead of a surplus of £2.5bn the true figure is actually a deficit of £200m for the year the Government chose, says a report from Migrationwatch out today. (Read report) […]
Home Affairs Select Committee (HAC) Report on Immigration Control | Migration Watch UK
On the 24 July, 2006 HAC issued a detailed report on immigration control. The press notice which summarises the report’s findings is available at here. This was followed by the Home Secretary’s proposals for reforming the systems and processes for managing immigration to the UK. A summary of the proposed changes and the implementation timescale is […]