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Geography: Population and Migration: 6 of 7

Migration is the movement of people, from one place to another.

International migration is when people move from one country (the source) to another country (the host).

Push factors encourage an individual to Pull factors attract individuals to
a place
leave a place.. It pushes them out. It pulls them in.

Causes of Poland to UK Migration Consequence for Host Country (UK) Consequences for the Source Country (Poland)

Poland has always had a culture of mobility. For Polish migrants alone contribute £2.5bn in tax every Poland gains £1bn in remittances which the Polish
example, in the nineteenth century hundreds of year. This provides the government with more tax government can invest in infrastructure and services.
thousands of Polish people migrated to the United to invest in improving services and infrastructure. These remittances reduce the amount the UK
States. government can invest in services and infrastructure.

The UK Government offered British citizenship to About 10,500 Poles work in the NHS. These
over 200,000 displaced Polish soldiers post WW2. individuals help to treat sick Britons, increasing life
This meant there was already an established Polish expectancies in the UK.
Diaspora in the UK.
Following the end of communism, Poland had high 80% of migrants are aged between 18 and 35, so
unemployment and low wages. For example, in the UK’s ageing population is counteracted.
2004, unemployment in Poland was 20% - in the UK it
was only 4%.

In 2004, Poland joined the European Union, giving
Polish people the legal right to come, live and work
in the UK. The UK was one of only three countries
that allowed these new European union migrants to
come and work straight away.