UK Social Problems and Migration

This assignment delves into the social problems plaguing the United Kingdom, with a particular emphasis on migration as a significant factor. It examines the complexities of migration and its influence on various aspects of UK society. The report also explores potential remedies and policies aimed at minimizing the adverse effects of migration in the long term, including stricter regulations on visas and passports for foreign nationals seeking residency in the UK.

SOCIAL PROBLEMS

TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
LITERATURE REVIEW................................................................................................................1
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................4
REFERNCES...................................................................................................................................5

INTRODUCTION
United Kingdom has continuous growing number of migrants. On one hand, it brings
multiple culture in one country. But on the other hand, it creates some major problems to the
society and economy also. Net migration can be applied to establish a balanced population
(Beaverstock and Hall, 2012). In the following report, different aspects of migration in the cited
country will be discussed according to the different point of view of some writers. Different
writers have there own opinions related to migration as some see it as damage to the country
while others see as danger for culture of UK. There are some types of immigration and their
impact will also be explained in it.
LITERATURE REVIEW
According to Greenslade (2010), immigration is movement of people to some particular
country which is not their native place. From many decades, there is continuous immigrations of
foreigners that has been considered a social problem in United Kingdom. From 1960 to the
current times, there have been many issues and arguments related to support or abandon it.
During the time of economic boom in year 2005, a huge migration had been attracted due to
more employment. It was not considered as a big cause of social problem instead encouraged
reluctantly (Blinder, 2012). Political migration had also been accepted earlier due to pressure of
international human rights obligations on UK government by non-governmental organisation,
other receiving countries and jurists. There have been 5.4 million people who had come to UK as
migrants according to the latest data.
As per Reinzo (2012), social problem of immigration can be resolved through fortress.
Migration is considered a major problem in economic term also. For example, they also consume
public resources as more people consumes more resources which consequently decrease the
quantity for local citizens of UK. Welfare and livelihood of natives are also get harmed by the
outsiders who are strangers for the country (Burrell, 2016). Sometimes, it was estimates that
immigrants will increase the house price at very huge rate in the future as 10 percent. To cope up
with this situation, various organisations has an argument to maintain net migration on zero
point. This type of migration is a balance in which immigrants and emigrants are equal in term of
numbers.
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In opinion of Muir (2012), there are both negative and positive impacts of migration and
it is considered as a critical social problem of United Kingdom. Followings are some
explanations of issues which are arisen by immigration in country. Population census can also be
used to evaluate exact data of migrants at international level (Clayton, 2016). There are some
terms and conditions which are if fulfilled by person from outside the country, he will be able to
settle permanently in United Kingdom. Among all cities of UK, London has the highest number
of immigrants as per data of year 2016 as foreign-born people constituted 41% of Inner
London’s population.
TYPES OF MIGRANTION AND PROBLEMS
According to Silverman society suffers from many issues which affect their way of life in
a negative way. There are different types of migrants like political, economic, family, irregular
and international migration in United Kingdom. These can be explained as below.
 Political migration-This type of migrations are the movement of people due to changes
in procedure and policies of that particular country. Another reason for political
migration can be civil war like Syria in recent times.
 Economic migration- Changes in financial position due to immigration of people are
called economic migration . In UK, GDP has been increased which also improved overall
image of the country in international market.
 Family migration-There are many people who come to UK to work with their families
which has pressure on limited natural resources consumption (Dustmann and Frattini,
2014). On the other hand, single migrants affect less to the local people life.
 Irregular migration- Sometimes, there are immigrations in UK in illegal way which can
damage the country and harm its people in many ways. For example, illegal migrants can
be terrorists or criminals which are dangerous for society. This makes the migration a
serious social problem for the local people.
 International migration- This type of migration includes people who come to UK from
other than UK based . There are few countries from where people have moved out to
UK as immigrants from India, China, Pakistan and Poland. Thus these above various
kinds of migrations in UK have major impact on its economy as well as on society in
many ways.
Problem due to migration
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Migration is currently one of the most difficult thing to handle for UK as it creates
imbalance in the population and resources utilization. It consequently affects productivity in
trade sector. There is unexpectedly hike in problem related to house availability. They claim
benefit which is harmful to local people of the country (Ruhs and Anderson, 2010). For example,
use of public services provided by government, rights of freedom will be divided among
migrants also which can be negative as an end result.
 High net migration encourages more rapid growth in population of the country which has
been recorded 335,000 in year 2016. As outsider comes with his family and children, it
causes continuous increase in number of migrants every year which uplifts the amount of
expenditure on public infrastructure and facilities. These facilities are schools, roads, rail,
health and other infrastructure.
 Due to multi cultured people who are not British, can harm the traditional culture of
local, people as they will be affected by mixed culture and their values.
 Another problem of migration is that resources in United Kingdom will be consumed
early as there will be lack of availability and increased cost of basic resources for the
local people. For example, new immigrants will also use all the infrastructure provided
by government authorities so division in all things will impact in a negative away.
Forth problem due to migration in United Kingdom is that there is overcrowding which
consequently makes local people uncomfortable to travel all over the city or country.
 Due to more workers at workplace, the employer of the company will not desire to
provide training and development to employees as they are ready to work at low payment
(Silverman and Hajela, 2011).
 Some times, there are discriminatory behaviour with migrants in organisation in United
Kingdom, which is a serious issue in front of local and national authorities.
 Public services get more pressure with increase in number of immigrants. .Sometimes,
there is no integration among migrants and local ,people which can rise tension in the
country.
 It can also be assumed that if any worker gets appointed, it will be considered as
snatching opportunity of local British person who needs employment.
 Human trafficking is the most crucial risk due to migrants as they are almost strangers to
United Kingdom.
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 Crime has also been increased after uplifted number of migrants as there is no
verification of them in new country.
 The government needs to build more asylums for migrants as shelter.
 There might be inequality related to income due to different skilled people come to work.
Positive impact of Migration
 One of the major benefit of migration in United Kingdom is that it brings some new
culture of other new people to local people.
 Many vacant seats in companies can be filled by migrants. As there will be more persons
with different skilled to get selected.
 Due to more labour, economic growth will also be improved and sustained in the
country.
 Immigrants fill the gap of emigrants who move out from UK.
 The pension gap can also be filled by new workers and another benefit is tax which is
paid by these new migrants.
 Care service can be better as there are few young workers for old people.
 Illegal migration in UK results many types of risk like terrorism and criminal activities.
Thus there are many problems created by migration in the cited country (Lopez, 2010).
So, legal and governmental authority should take some appropriate steps to avoid negative
impact and convert them to benefit for the nation and its local native people. So to deal with
migration, government should take some appropriate actions like to protect rights of migrants as
well as their families and employment.
CONCLUSION
From the above report, it can be concludeed that United Kingdom is facing some social problems
among which migration is also a major difficulty. There are some remedies to avoid bad impact
of this social problem in the long term. As results, restricting rules and regulation are
implemented in visa and passport for foreigners who want to settle in UK. One of the major
migrant in UK is economic migration which fluctuate it financial status in the long term. After
Brexit, there was a sharp fall in migration to the country.
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Lopez Rodriguez, M., 2010. Migration and a quest for ‘normalcy’. Polish migrant mothers and
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Ruhs, M. and Anderson, B., 2010. Who needs migrant workers?: labour shortages, immigration,
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Net migration to UK falls sharply after Brexit vote, 2017. [Online]. Available
through:<https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/feb/23/net-migration-to-uk-falls-
by-49000-after-brexit-vote>. [Accessed on 13th June 2017].
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