Write a 5 pages paper on migration to the uk from eastern europe.
Write a 5 pages paper on migration to the uk from eastern europe. According to Moch, migration patterns in Europe during the years from the end of the Napoleonic wars to the outbreak of the First World War were dominated by industrialization and urbanization, so that there was growing visibility of women in the migration streams, with the European population “free, urbanized and proletarian.” (Moch, p 160). The result was an international labor force that easily crossed national boundaries, but this trend was reversed during the years of the two world wars. The recent decades, however, are significant because they have been characterized by a resumption of European migration and this revival is notable because of the origin of the migrants – from southern Europe, the Mediterranean basin and the colonies of Europe, with the destination European states like the UK playing an active role in the regulation of these migrants.
Blanchflower et al (2007:4) have pointed out that the UK population growth over the period 1971 to 1999 was 2.8 million or 4.9%, but the rate of growth has been faster since the turn of the millennium, with the major reason for this growth being the rise in net inward migration from the eight A8 East European countries. On May 1, 2004, ten new countries of east Europe joined the European Union – Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Slovakia and Slovenia – and as a result, gained the rights to work and to free movement throughout the EU. (NSCD Report, 2006:11). However, among the 15 members of the European Union, it was only the UK that allowed individuals from the A8 countries to work within its borders since 2004, albeit with restricted access to benefits, through the Worker Registration Scheme. Portugal, Finland, and Greece have allowed access to A8 individuals to their labor markets since April 2006. (NSCD Report, 2006:11). .According to Drinkwater (2006), the lower the GDP of the country in question, the greater has been the tendency of individuals from that country to migrate to the UK.
