370,000 migrants on JSA

More than 370,000 migrants who were admitted to Britain to work, study or go on holiday are now claiming out-of-work benefits, according to official figures compiled for the first time.


http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/9026401/370000-migrants-on-the-dole.html

The Daily Mail's take on it - http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2089118/Benefits-Foreigners-paid-2bn-year-5-000-claiming-42m-illegal-handouts.html

Immigration

mindmap:
http://www.mindomo.com/view.htm?m=972bf5f506c147fa885d7a1f0c00adb7

Panorama:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00s35k6

Migration Watch:
http://www.migrationwatch.org/

UK to cut number of skilled workers from outside EU

The number of skilled workers allowed into the UK from outside the EU is to be cut, Home Secretary Theresa May has said. Ministers says the temporary measure will cut the flow of immigrants while they hold a consultation on the right level for a permanent cap.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/10430640.stm

Effect of a ban on reducing the number of immigrants

Office for Budget Responsibility predicts curbs on immigration and costs of an ageing society will slow economy's growth rate

http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2010/jun/14/demographic-changes-curbing-growth-prediction

Is Britain full?

Panorama investigates just how overcrowded the UK actually is. The latest official population projection has it rising over the next twenty years to 70 million. If it does, everybody will feel the effects - from where we live to where our kids go to school.
Some argue that the extra population, much of it made up of new immigrants, will help boost the British economy, but will it? And what can politicians actually do to stop the growth?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00s35k6

MIgrationwatch (representing a pessimistic view on immigration)

http://www.migrationwatchuk.org/

Panorama - Britain's new immigrants from Eastern Europe (2005)

Panorama documentary: Immigration is high on the political agenda; last May the Government, controversially, said that workers from eight new member states of the European Union could work here, legally.

Over the period of a year Panorama has filmed the reality of economic migration, following 11 East Europeans who came to the UK seeking work.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/player/nol/newsid_4500000/newsid_4507400/4507424.stm?bw=bb&mp=rm&news=1&nol_storyid=4507424&bbcws=1

Panorama - Immigration: time for an amnesty?

Panorama looks at a proposed amnesty for hundreds of thousands of long-standing illegal immigrants, offering them the right to work and full citizenship.
London mayor Boris Johnson is in favour of the idea, and ninety-three MPs from across the country support it.
But it is a big ask with the UK in the grip of a credit crunch, and amid protests calling for British jobs for British workers.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00j4bd7/Panorama_Immigration_Time_for_an_Amnesty/

New migration controls highlight the jobs with a shortage of supply

Do you know which occupations in the UK are suffering from a shortage in skilled employees? The new migration points system highlights the industries in which the government remains keen to encourage skilled migrants into the UK…
http://www.tutor2u.net/blog/index.php/business-studies/comments/new-migration-controls-highlight-the-jobs-with-a-shortage-of-supply/#extended

Established migrants facing job squeeze

The new wave of immigrants has left many Portuguese workers, who began arriving 10 years ago, struggling to find work.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/check/player/nol/newsid_7260000/newsid_7269500?redirect=7269571.stm&news=1&nbwm=1&nbram=1&bbwm=1&bbram=1&asb=1