Migration

• • As the UK economy picked up and then boomed in the late 1950s and 1960s,​ Bradford factories in the 1950s wanted people to work the night shift.​ People came to work in the textile factories of the North of England.​
• Britain’s cities became increasingly multicultural. The 1962 Commonwealth Immigrants Act, which aimed to restrict numbers, set up a voucher system for those entering the UK to work. ​
• Many men who were working here at the time had intended to return to their families in the long-term, but when they realised that they may not be readmitted if they left the UK, they brought their families to join them and decided to settle permanently in the UK instead. ​
• The 1968 Commonwealth Immigrants Act restricted entry only to those with a father or grandfather born in the UK.​
• Exogenous factors such as flows of people change the character of places