Welcome to the UK?

Immigration is a hot topic in the UK. Should the UK take in more immigrants or is it time to say stop? To prepare for reading the news articles in your textbook, find updated information on immigration to the UK below. Discuss the information you find there with your classmates.

Now, look at the two articles on pages 165 and 177 taken from British news agencies to get different sides of the immigration debate.

Reading, United Kingdom - March 6, 2015: People leaving a Polish delicatessen in Reading, England and the Abu Bakr Mosque. The migrant population of England has risen by 565k since 2011 according to the University of Oxford Reading, United Kingdom - March 6, 2015: People leaving a Polish delicatessen in Reading, England and the Abu Bakr Mosque. The migrant population of England has risen by 565k since 2011 according to the University of Oxford

 

Video: How has immigration changed Britain?

The former market town in Cambridgeshire, now a city, used to be "very English and very white", but in the last decade 24,000 immigrants have arrived. The BBC's Political Editor Nick Robinson reports.