The Double-edged Sword of Migration: Economic Boom or Curse?

Migration has both positive and negative impacts on the UK economy over the past few decades. While it contributes to economic growth through revenue generation, it also raises concerns about low-level crime, antisocial behavior, community tensions, and public service suffering due to inadequate funding in areas of change. The increasing migrant population has led to health issues and an unhygienic economy. As a result, the UK government must strike a balance between welcoming migrants while addressing these negative impacts.

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Table of Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................3
Businesses in UK by migrants.........................................................................................................3
Crime...............................................................................................................................................4
Reasons behind the immigration as a problem................................................................................5
Conclusion.......................................................................................................................................7
References........................................................................................................................................8
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Introduction
Migration is basically defined as the movement of one individual or a group of individuals from
one or to another region or place. Migrants could be defined as the people who undergo
migration. Migrants in UK are now quite common and huge in number. In a year within 2016, an
estimate of 268,000 citizens from the EU countries immigrated to UK and around 103,000 of
people have emigrated abroad. Majority of people from other countries of European Union could
come to UK for finding their employment. Many people even come to the nation of UK for
higher studies and to build up a bright career.
From the research it has been observed that almost 3.2 million individuals residing in UK in the
year 2015 belonged to the European Union countries which accounted for almost 5% of the
entire UK population. According the literary works it is seen that almost 2.3 million citizens on
nationals of the countries belonging to European Union have arrived UK for pursuing
employment which accounted for almost 7% of the people in work force (huffingtonpost.co.uk,
2016). National from European Union of the working age are supposed to approach work other
than the UK National as well as non-EU citizens. Around 80% of the working its citizens of
European Union in UK have been found to work as compared to around 75% of the UK
nationals as well as 62% of the people outside of European Union have arrived
(economicshelp.org, 2016). Therefore, from these facts it is easily seen that migration and
immigration is quite common in the country of UK and most of them has been observed to
pursue their future goal and objectives.
Businesses in UK by migrants
Immigration has been found two become one of the Britain's hottest topics in the context of
vertical matters. However, not concentrating on the scaremongering and a talk about the
immigrants pursuing jobs from the British born candidates, much higher Attention is to be paid
on the positive rules that are played by the immigrants for establishing as well as developing the
new businesses in the country of UK. According to the statements of Geddes and Scholten
(2016), recent research as well as history shows that foreigners who have come to settle down in
the new country often bring a huge surprising zeal determination of success as well as the energy
required for making any business work. Immigrant as well as people of age range from 25 to 44
years have been observed to start new businesses and greater number of women have been
noticed to seek beginning of new companies; where men and Women both have for attitude and
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towards starting up a business. As stated by Dustmann and Frattini (2014), broader skills and
experience of huge number of immigrants as well as the return immigrants might have enables
them to exploit and spots opportunities and scopes more readily. It is eventually observed that
immigrants fries more likely to have the entrepreneurial skills than the native peoples of Britain
(huffingtonpost.co.uk, 2016). it has certainly are most with 15.4pc of the immigrant adult who
have been observed to launch companies as compared to 5.3pc of the lifelong residents
belonging to UK. According to sincere research, many facts have been revealed about a
significant large proportion of businesses of UK that have been carried out by immigrants. In the
words of Jansen (2016), the research explicated that more than around 464,500 companies within
the area of Britain have been commenced by the migrant entrepreneurs. This is Equivalent to
around 14 percent of the entire UK industry of business. Remarkable facts from the research
study also talks about the operation of 457,000 entrepreneurs in the country of UK who have
born in Other European Union countries or other countries across the world (dailymail.co.uk,
2014). It is evident that more than almost 17% of the non UK citizens on nationals have arrived
in Britain for starting of their own businesses companies as compared to just 10.4% of the people
who are the native citizens of UK. As suggested by Dustmann and Frattini (2014), it is evident
that more than almost 17% of the non UK citizens or nationals have arrived in Britain for starting
up their own businesses companies as compared to just 10.4% of the people who are born and
bred in Britain. Ample businesses that are being started by these immigrants are considered to be
much profitable in the areas of- Real estate and construction, consumer goods, information
technology, manufacturing, management consultancy, entertainment and media as well as health
care (boostcapital.co.uk, 2017). Almost 10.3% of the forms which are run by migrants in Britain
have been found to be the property related or housing businesses. Consumer goods like food
jewellery as well as clothing are produced by almost 7.6% of the foreign owned companies. As
supported by Geddes and Scholten (2016), one in every 20 small and medium enterprises run by
the migrants belongs to heavy industry and media accounted for almost 3.1% for the immigrated
business owners. To be quite exact, it is said that are most 3% of the migrants firms have been
found to operate in the field of Healthcare.
Crime
Immigration as well as crime regards to the actual opposite relationships among crime along with
immigration. According to the findings of academic literature mixed findings for this
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relationship among immigration as well as crime overseas have been found which country use
that immigration either reduces the rate of crime or increases the crime rate (bbc.co.uk, 2010).
According to the evidences, it is seen that the migrants tend to locate the areas where the rate of
crime is significantly higher and the problem of this casualty prevails. Persisting research
suggests of the significant impact over crime rates as committed by immigrants are often found
to be from the opportunities of labour market (bbc.co.uk, 2010). It also states that allocation of
these immigrants to the neighbourhoods of higher crime raises the propensity of crime
committed by individual immigrants which is due to their social interaction with the criminals.
Crimes related to ample fields like property crimes, in education crimes, driving crimes, rapes,
drug offenses, employment schemes cry are Crimes as well as higher incarceration rates
(express.co.uk, 2016).
Higher incidences of terrorism are also found due to the increase in migration in the UK.
Migrants have been observed to get engaged with the criminals through their interaction at
schools colleges and Universities. It has been observed that students who came from abroad to
the Country of UK Are often engaged to crimes like drug offenses, drinking and driving crimes,
rape crimes as well as eve teasing crimes (express.co.uk, 2016). Life of the students gets
damaged due to search involvement in crimes on a huge rate. Tourism is also regarded as one of
the most dangerous crimes that might happen in the country of UK. It is also evident that the
migrants who are poor in education process the highest probability of committing crime and
suffering imprisonment. Drug dealers of in consider these immigrants as their prey to commit
crimes of receiving drugs which have their fatal impacts on their living as well as pursuing
education. It is highly noticeable that crimes have almost rules over the nation due to
uncontrollable and disastrous immigration of citizens from other European Union countries as
well as from other foreign countries (economicshelp.org, 2016). It is a threat to the native people
of UK that the increasing number of crimes is also affecting their lives and standard of living as
well. Reputation of the nation is being considered hampered due to search increasing number of
crimes in the country. A fear of terror also prevails within the nation due to innumerable
migrants from the terrorism prone zones and affects the daily living of UK residents.
Reasons behind the immigration as a problem
UK has diligently experience the steady flow of migrants into its economy over the past two
decades. As observed by Dustmann and Frattini (2014), the net migration is considered to be a
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significant factor behind the growth of UK population which helps as well as hinders the UK
economy. One of the important or gets off the net migration has been higher education in the era
of 2010-11 there has been 428,000 international students who has come from abroad in UK for
higher studies (bbc.co.uk, 2013). These students might not show up in the long term friends of
migration but the effects in the short term are quite significance. Economic as well as the
financial structure of UK economy has witnessed in stability and potential imbalance due to the
uncontrollable migration to UK economy. In the opinions of Geddes and Scholten (2016), the
major issues that have been observed to rise due to the constant migration has been over
crowdedness which implies rapid increase in population due to the migration that has
significantly leads to a fall in the living standards of the native residents of UK. Significantly
have UK started facing acute amount of housing shortage and even the unwillingness for
building upon an increasingly scarce land of Green Belt (bbc.co.uk, 2013). In a number of cities,
it is quite difficult for building more roads and houses due to limited space. The increased
population due to immigration has raised the urban pollution and congestion. Therefore the rise
in the real GDP has been supposed to be measured against the negative issues of immigration
which significantly affects the quality and standard of life.
Immigration has certainly become a huge issue since it impacts the social environment of UK in
a broader way. Multiple challenges are being faced by the UK residents as well as the nation
itself due to the uncontrollable and consistent migration. Almost every region of UK has
encountered difficulties in the fields of health education housing and crime due to increased
migration in the country over the past few decades. In the viewpoints of Jansen (2016), major
concerns have been also about the increase in low level crime as in the driving offences
antisocial behaviour as well as community tensions which have affected the living of native
people in UK. It is also observed that public services might be suffering due to this persistent
migration if the funding reflected in the areas of changing is not adequate. Health issues are
being witnessed on a huge note and UK economy has become unhygienic due to the living of
migrated population (express.co.uk, 2016).Therefore as migration has contributed to the
economy which is considered to be a boom similarly the negative impacts of migration has
interested it to consider it as a curse.
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Conclusion
With reference to the above study it is clearly seen that migration in UK has both positive as well
as negative impacts upon the UK economy. In the past two decades UK migration has been
increasing in multiple amounts and has significant effects on the UK economy. It is also every
time into that the native people are sincerely affected by this uncontrollable and disastrous
multitude of migrant population in the UK. Migration in UK is now considered to be a major
issue that has caused relevant amount of difficulties and hindrances in the development and
growth of economy. this is because social impacts of use of the migration taking place in UK and
the native citizens of UK claims to suffer from cultural dominance through this prolonged
migration.
Ample rates of crime had been observed to be persisting due to the increasing rates of migration
in the UK nation. The incidences of drug deals, rape cases, driving and drinking rules violation,
terrorism and other crimes have consistently increased in UK due to the precedent arrival of the
immigrants. Therefore, it is evident that the migration in UK has both positive as well as
negative effects on the UK economy. Positive effects surely include the significant contribution
of the revenues and profits collected through business by the migrants to UK’s national income.
It is highly required to control the fuelling growth of immigration in UK in order to foster
economic growth and development.
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