Outline of migration to Britain

• Many people migrated from Eastern Europe after the Second World War
• Many Indians and Pakistanis migrated after Indian Independence was declared in 1947.
• In the 1950s, there was a severe shortage of labour in the UK so the British Government encourages immigration from the Caribbean and Hong Kong
• In the 1980s, many Somalis came to escape the civil war in their homeland
• In the 1990s, the Balkan conflict led to many people migrating from there
• Immigration has continued in the twenty-first century as a result of several factors:

  • the expansion of the EU
  • migrants crossing into Europe from North Africa
  • refugees from the civil war in Syria