Overview of Partners’ Project Perspective Documents
Each of the five partners participating in the Migrants and the Media Project was invited to submit a Project Perspective Document detailing patterns of migration to their countries as well as the extent of visibility, attitude towards, and inclusion of migrants in the media.
“Substantial inward movements occurred during the early period of its emergence as an urban society, with Huguenot refugees from France and the Low Countries arriving in the 17th Century, followed by Germans and Irish, and after 1880, Jewish migrants and refugees from the Czarist lands. It was also a major country of out-migration throughout this period, with British migrants leaving in large numbers to settle in colonies established in the Americas, Africa, Asia and Australasia.
In more modern times migration has moved through the phase of Commonwealth citizens arriving in the decades after the second world war to work in the industries and services being reconstructed; the movements family reunification which began after the stops placed on Commonwealth migration in 1962, which was supplemented by the arrival of British citizens of South Asian origin who had been displaced by de-colonisation in East Africa; refugee arrivals after 1989; a new period of economic migration starting in the late 1990s; and large-scale migration from the EU accession countries from 2004 onwards.” [MRC/MRN, UK]
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