Accessibility to key cities

• Physical factors

  • Distance and accessibility
  • Determined where new migrant communities settled
  • Lack of access in rural - car ownership needed
  • East Devon saw few migrants
  • Distance to airports to see family in own country
• Government planning policy

  • Actions by governments may fasten or suppress diversity
  • Many migrant communities began as a result of deliberate government policies
  • Post WW2 government sponsored job advertisements overseas to:
  • Fix labour shortages
  • UK's textile industry
  • Public transport systems
  • Newly established NHGS
  • Black Afro-Caribbean migrants began to arrive from the West Indies from 1948
  • Most settled in Brixton, Catford, Stonebridge and Tottenham
• Dependency ratio

  The ratio of dependents (under 15 or over 64) to the working age population (15-64), published as the proportion of dependents per 100 working age
• Internal and international migration

  • Free movement of EU citizens
  • UK 7th largest economy
  • Language - English
  • Economic migration
  • Skilled migrant workers gain jobs in London's economy
  • London and SE account for half of all overseas-born people living in the UK
  • Semi- and unskilled migrant workers
  • Unwanted jobs
  • Unreasonable hours
  • Service industry