Impacts of Migration - Poland to UK

Question 1

What is the case study we should use for this?

Answer 1

• Economic migration - Poland to the UK

Question 2

What were the impacts on the UK?

Answer 2

• Provide a hard working, motivated workforce
• Fill skill shortages
• Contribute to the local and national economy

Question 3

What were the impacts on Poland?

Answer 3

• Fewer unemployed people have been left looking for jobs in Poland
• in 2005/06, almost £4 billion was sent back to Poland from abroad, which is around a third of their economic growth
• Labour shortages has been caused in the service, building and science industries

Question 4

What is the main impact migration has had on the UK?

Answer 4

• The UK’s population is now expected to rise from 61 to 71.6 million by 2033.
• Two thirds of that rise is expected to be from migration

Question 5

What is ‘Migration’?

Answer 5

• Where you move from one place to another in the same country

Question 6

How has migration led to a change in population?

Answer 6

• Migrants who come to the UK tend to be young so they help to balance the UK’s ageing population