Migration to Britain in the twentieth century was caused by a range of push and pull factors.
Russian migrants before the First World War were fleeing persecution. Postwar migration from the Caribbean was encouraged to help rebuild postwar Britain. Bangladeshi migration was initially caused by economic pull factors and then precipitated by changing British government policy relating to visas as well as the independence war in Bangladesh. Ugandan Asians were expelled by the government of Idi Amin in the 1970s and most had British passports which had been granted to them following Ugandan independence. From the 1990s Eastern Europeans and Europeans from within the EU were attracted to Britain by economic pull factors and their migration was enabled by Britain’s membership of the EU.
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