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With reference to the period 1880 to the present day

Explain why people chose to migrate to Britain

There are many reasons why people have migrated to Britain between the periods 1880 to the present day. In this essay I am going to go into detail of why these people were pushed out of their country and pulled into Britain whether it is for political, religious, social or economic reasons.

Firstly, I am going to talk about a massive number of Jews that migrated over to Britain around the period 1880.  There were many reasons for this but the majority of them can be grouped under the factor religious persecution.  The main reason was that the Russian government and the rest of the population were making it as hard as they could for the Jewish population to live in their Country.   They did this in many ways such as blaming them for the assassination of the Tsar Alexander II.   They were also blamed for many other things that had nothing to do with them called (playing the Jewish Card).  They were also finding it very hard to make a living in Russia because the majority of people in Russia were racist against the Jews at this moment in time and were not willing to give them a job of any kind. In source A it shows what must have been the final straw for the Jews, it shows the government making special laws against the Jews such as:

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Jews may only live in town, not in the countryside.  Jews cannot own or farm land.  Jewish landowners, farmers or labourers will be expelled from their Jewish homes – this would affect many Jews because many of them lived in the countryside and had jobs on farms.  So this law caused them to be thrown out of their house with no job.

Jews will be limited in number at school and university to 5% of all students – this law would make Jews want to leave this Country because the Jews would want the best for their children.  They would ...

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