Explain why people emigrated to Britain in the 20th century.

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                                 coursework assignment 2: Multi-cultral Britain

The aim of my essay is to explain why people emigrated to Britain in the 20th century. Differnt groups of people came to Britain in the 20th century. People came to Britain from other parts of the world because both push and pull factors. The push reasons are those things which force them to leave the country they are living in, to emigrate. Pull reasons are those which attract those people to a particular country, to imigrate. During the 20th Century, the  Russian Jewish,  Ugandan Asian and Caribbean minorities were of the many who had undertaken immigration and emigration to Britain. Along side these particular minorities, there were also Polish Pilots whom had joined the RAF.

The Russian jews reason for emigration was for those push reasons.Several laws were passed governing the lives of Russian jews.These rules expelled them from their homes and jobs. They were given a limited number in schools and universities to 5% of all students that were jews.The aim of their persecution towards the jews was to gain total extermination of the five million jews in Russia.Source B shows a picture of Russians beating a Jewish man after a porgrom in Kiev 1881.Almost every sector of the Christian population participated in these pogroms, including wealthy Russian merchants, nationalist Ukrainian intellectuals and members of the liberal professions. The government supported the pogroms as a means of punishing the Jews for their participation in a revolutionary movement.

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Uganda is a country in Africa, people who stayed in Uganda and with a British passport were known as the Ugandian Asians as in 1962 Uganda was a British colony. In 1971 Idi Amin a general took over the goverment.He ordered the persecution of several Ugandan tribal groups and kicked all Asians out of the country in 1972. People were given so little time that they had to leave alomost everything behind.There houses and work places were being knocked down.The british goverment airlifted the 29,000 Asians to Britain and set up the resettlement Board and sent the refugees to ...

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