Thursday, 28 November 2013
Migrants contribute £25 billion
Migrants contribute £25bn to UK economy, study finds
Arrivals from EEA countries since 2000 have worked more and received less in benefits than average Briton, academics argue
Thursday, 7 November 2013
Who are we really?
I have been looking at different aspects of immigration in Britain:
the Media (newspapers and internet)
interviewing people
interrogating myself
looking at statistics
recording people speaking many languages
Are we are all immigrants?
If your parents are immigrants are you an immigrant?
If your grandparents are immigrants are you an immigrant?
The Angles and Saxons came to the UK in the 7th century.
Are the Anglo-Saxons immigrants?
If your grandparents are immigrants are you an immigrant?
The Angles and Saxons came to the UK in the 7th century.
Are the Anglo-Saxons immigrants?
BBC immigration story
Nov 6 2013Recent immigrants to UK 'make net contribution'
Immigrants to the UK since 2000 have made a "substantial" contribution to public finances, a report says.
The study by University College Londonsaid recent immigrants were less likely to claim benefits and live in social housing than people born in Britain.
The authors said rather than being a "drain", their contribution had been "remarkably strong".
The government said it was right to have strict rules in place to help protect the benefits system.
Immigrants who arrived after 1999 were 45% less likely to receive state benefits or tax credits than UK natives in the period 2000-2011, according to the report by Prof Christian Dustmann and Dr Tommaso Frattini from UCL's Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration.
They were also 3% less likely to live in social housing.
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12,000,000 | 26,435 | |||||||||||||||||||
Immigrants take our jobs-Cameron
Half workers in some factories are immigrants, says UK PM
01 November 2013
For concise and recent immigration information watch our news.
David Cameron, the UK's Prime Minister, has said that young Britons are being outcompeted for jobs by foreign workers because of their 'can do attitude'. Mr Cameron said that there was a danger that young UK nationals might lose out when looking for work. He said that they should be given 'experience of work, of timekeeping and all the things it means to have a job'.
Latest news
- 06 November 2013 UK immigration abandons plan for visa security bonds
- 04 November 2013 London mayor is 'only UK politician who is openly pro-immigration'
- 30 October 2013 UK immigration says goodbye to 'racist van' despite 'success'
Mr Cameron was speaking at the Mini car plant in Oxford. He said that the UK's education system had failed young Britons. There was also a disincentive to work because of the UK's welfare system. He said 'immigration, welfare and education are totally linked'.
Mr Cameron said the UK should
- improve its education system so that school-leavers were able to compete with foreign workers for jobs
- Reform the welfare system to make work pay and
- 'have sensible controls on immigration'
Half the workforce in some factories from eastern Europe – Cameron
Boris pro-immigration
London mayor is 'only UK politician who is openly pro-immigration'
04 November 2013
For concise and recent immigration information watch our news.
Boris Johnson, the Mayor of London, has told an audience at City Hall, the home of London's government, that he is 'probably about the only politician I know of who is actually willing to stand up and say that he's pro-immigration'.
Latest news
- 06 November 2013 UK immigration abandons plan for visa security bonds
- 01 November 2013 Half workers in some factories are immigrants, says UK PM
- 30 October 2013 UK immigration says goodbye to 'racist van' despite 'success'
He continued 'I believe that when talented people have something to offer a society and a community, they should be given the benefit of the doubt'. He added that he was 'the descendant of immigrants'.
Mr Johnson is indeed out of step with other UK politicians in the tone and content of his pronouncements on immigration. He has frequently said that London businesses need to be able to employ talented people from overseas.
(Boris Johnson born in USA- is he an immigrant?)
Chinatown workers protest
Chinatown workers walk out in protest at immigration raids
Community leaders say UK Border Agency is fishing for immigrants and disrupting trade, after 13 raids in recent months
EmailImmigration statistics 1999-2008
| Control of Immigration: statistical summary (1), 1999-2008 | ||||||||
| Year/ | Passengers | Non-asylum | Persons | |||||
| Geographical region | given leave | passengers refused | applying for | |||||
| of nationality | to enter | entry at port | asylum at | |||||
| at UK ports | and subsequently | ports or | ||||||
| (2)(3)(4) | removed | in country | ||||||
| (5)(6) | (7) | |||||||
| 1999 | 12,000,000 | 26,435 | 71,160 | |||||
| 2000 | 13,000,000 | 32,835 | 80,315 | |||||
| 2001 | 12,800,000 | 33,690 | 71,025 | |||||
| 2002 | 12,600,000 | 46,630 | 84,130 | |||||
| 2003 | 12,200,000 | 35,130 | 49,405 | |||||
| 2004 | 12,000,000 | 36,165 | 33,960 | |||||
| 2005 | 11,800,000 | 29,805 | 25,710 | |||||
| 2006 | 12,900,000 | (10) | 31,895 | 23,610 | ||||
| 2007 (R) | 13,400,000 | (11) | (12,800,000) | 31,145 | 23,430 | |||
| 2008 (P) | 12,700,000 | (11) | (12,400,000) | 32,365 | 25,930 | |||
| Geographical region of nationality (12) | ||||||||
| 2008 (P) | ||||||||
| Europe | 696,000 | (13) | 2,450 | 740 | ||||
| Americas | 5,400,000 | (13) | 10,155 | 405 | ||||
| Africa | 1,180,000 | (13) | 5,905 | 10,270 | ||||
| Indian sub-continent | 1,210,000 | (13) | 2,915 | 2,405 | ||||
| Middle East | 626,000 | (13) | 3,430 | 4,895 | ||||
| Remainder of Asia | 1,860,000 | (13) | 6,060 | 7,140 | ||||
| Oceania | 1,420,000 | (13) | 845 | – | ||||
| Other nationalities | 48,000 | (13) | 610 | 75 | ||||
Sunday, 3 November 2013
Popular culture- survey
Popular culture
I asked various people I know what they thought about possible new trends.
Thoughts on recent trends/possible new trends from conversations with family and friends.
Thoughts on recent trends/possible new trends from conversations with family and friends.
From an eleven year
old girl:
“What is a trend?”.
“A new thing that many people start to do”.
Everyone goes to live on a spacecraft because they’re bored
with earth
Inventing CV’s and it works
Big shopping trip and go home and can’t afford to (buy food
to) eat
Kid’s so poor, they have no clothes except their school
uniform
The governments and presidents start putting people down,
due to too much population
Children take over – not that that’s a change!
Racism gets worse
Popular apps are: Keek, Whattsapp, tumbler, intagram, Twitter,
Facebook, Google talk, Facebook, vine, Skype, MSN, messenger
From her dad
New trends from America
Celebrating Halloween
Children having sleepovers
Kid’s “growing up” earlier
More anti-immigrant feeling/campaigns
Greater separation between rich and poor
1%- Occupy
Online activism- Aavaz, Compass 360
Crowd- funding
Online culture (you-tube)
Online news (Twitter)
The rise of the TV talent show- Simon Cowell – X-Factor
Anti-consumerism, caused by economic conditions
Patching – people begin to transform broken things into
useful things , including patching clothes (cupboard to chair)
Staycation- not travelling abroad for holidays
Fuel poverty
People less social- always playing with hand held devices
More homelessness, street people
Apathy- in the face of street crime, ignore someone who gets
ill on the street
Alienation- from others’ problems
- Less
concerned with (anti-) social behaviour)
Neighbourliness/community- people don’t go to ask their
neighbour for help
Anti-immigrant policies and the media
Anti-poor, anti-disabled policies
Harder to find a job –mass unemployment
Youth unemployment
NEETs Neither in employment, education or training
ASBOs- anti-social behaviour order
Exclusion- excluded from school
-excluded generally (from society)
- excluded from the economy
From a retired
builder and sailor (Steve)
Gentrification
Artists moving to an area lead to gentrification
Ipad art
3D printers
Privacy
Should anyone have a private life?
Should there be anything such as privacy in the modern
world?
Communication
The tidal wave of information
Understandably, people switch off
Flaunting poverty
From a walking
professional and artist (Andrew)
The super rich use robots for everyday tasks
The rest of us will meet the rich’s robots on the street
3D printers will change….
From a science
reporter (Stephen Battersby)
You could think about how people
might get creative with flood-proof architecture. Climate change means flooding
will become more common as the years roll by, and it's always struck me that
today's houses are especially delicate about water - two feet of water in your
ground floor for 24 hours, and the house is uninhabitable for a year. New
houses might just be on stilts, but perhaps there are better ways of doing
it... and what could you do to make existing houses floodproof? -
Plasticised decor - an entire ground-floor done out as wet rooms?
Or... I'm not sure if this is a
bit heavy, but at some point when the AI gets good enough people are going
to start procreating in a new way, by generating intelligent avatars
online; versions of themselves or idealised versions of themselves or entirely
new personalities.
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