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The following statement has been issued by think-tank Migrationwatch in response to the publication today of total international migration estimates and population projections | Migration Watch UK
These are staggering figures which totally demolish the Government’s claim that it has a ‘Managed Migration’ policy. In fact they show that immigration into the UK is out of control. Foreign immigration is up 45% to 342,000 – that is equivalent to the city of Leicester in a single year
Transnational marriage a ‘root cause’ of poor integration says report | Migration Watch UK
The problems of integrating immigrant communities – so graphically described in the last few days by Commission for Racial Equality chairman, Trevor Phillips – will only get worse if action is not taken soon to severely curtail transnational marriages in the UK, says a report out today. Such marriages make
Transnational marriage and the formation of Ghettoes
Summary1. International arranged marriages are a major factor in the formation of ghettoes in Britain. Even in the second generation, a high proportion of immigrants from certain countries enter arranged marriages with spouses from their county of origin. This sets back integration by a generation. The flow of spouses and
Numbers are at heart of immigration debate | Migration Watch UK
The assumption that immigration at its current unprecedented level is somehow ‘inevitable’ has been challenged by think tank Migrationwatch in a response to the recent report from the IPPR , ‘Beyond Black and White.’ In part the IPPR report said that “… there is the growing realisation that immigration is
IPPR Report Beyond Black and White
Summary1. A useful report providing detail of the origin, present location and economic performance of our immigrant communities. However, the methodology, based on census comparisons, deals only with the stock of immigrants rather than the flow. It thus obscures the very rapid increase in foreign immigration which has quadrupled since
Migration study ‘misses point’ – Comments by Sir Andrew Green about the IPPR Report. | Migration Watch UK
Introduction by BBC News web site – A report from the IPPR think tank shows 7.53% of people living in Britain were born overseas. However, pressure group Migration Watch is critical of the report, as its chairman explains. This report is full of interesting detail – and empty of serious
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