I would like to tell you my views on the inward migration of workers to the UK and whether it has a positive or negative effect on our country

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                        I would like to tell you my views on the inward migration of workers to the UK and whether it has a positive or negative effect on our country. The UK is affected by the EU as the EU has said that members of the European Union can work in countries that also belong to the EU. In 2004, eight new countries joined. In the two years that followed, 600,000 workers came to the UK as no policy was put into place by the British government on foreign workers. However, in 2007, just after Bulgaria and Romania joined the EU, the UK government introduced a policy that limited the amount of foreign workers coming into the country. We can tell that most workers are polish because when they joined the EU in 2004 the statistics on foreign workers shot up. On the UK's population pyramid, there are more men aged from around 20-40 which could be due to people coming to work and send the money home to their families. The amount of workers coming over could affect our demographic transition model (DMT) as many migrants start families which can make the birth rate increase dramatically. According to the DMT this would be considered as stage 2/ early stage 3. Because of the excellent standard of medical facilities and free healthcare for British citizens the death rate is rather low which puts us currently in stage 4. If more people are in the country there will be more people per doctor. Inward migration has both positive and negative effects on the UK.

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     There are numerous social effects of inward migration to the UK. Some are negative and some are positive. Many British citizens get annoyed at the fact that foreign people come here and take up jobs and resources that they should be doing and using in their own country. Having migrant workers here can cause problems for British workers as they can't get jobs because eastern European workers have taken them. Although, this is sometimes seen as a good thing because they are willing to do jobs that British workers aren't. People come here from other countries because they ...

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