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The historical immigration to Great Britain concerns the movement of people, cultural and ethnic groups to the British Isles before Irish independence in 1922. Immigration after Irish independence is dealt with by the article Immigration to the United Kingdom since Irish independence. Modern humans first arrived in Great Britain during the ...
The beginnings of the modern-day UK immigration control can be traced from the final decade of the 19th century and the political debate that grew surrounding the perceived growth in the numbers of Eastern European Jews coming to the UK. Political alarm was also expressed regarding the rising numbers of foreign national criminals in UK prisons ...
The eastern and northern frontier around the initial New England settlements was mainly settled by the descendants of the original New Englanders. Immigration to the New England colonies after 1640 and the start of the English Civil War decreased to less than 1% (about equal to the death rate) in nearly all of the years prior to 1845. The rapid ...
Net migration into the UK during 2022 is reported to have reached a record high of 764,000, [ 10 ] with immigration at 1.26 million and emigration at 493,000. [ 11 ] Net migration was 685,000 in 2023. Of the 1,218,000 migrants in 2023, only 10% were citizens of EU member states.
Immigration policies of the United Kingdom are the areas of modern British policy concerned with the immigration system of the United Kingdom —primarily, who has the right to visit or stay in the UK. British immigration policy is under the purview of UK Visas and Immigration. [1]
Genetic testing has been used to find evidence of large scale immigration of Germanic peoples into England. Weale et al. (2002) found that English Y DNA data showed signs of a mass Anglo-Saxon immigration from the European continent, affecting 50%–100% of the male gene pool in central England.
The study concluded that in eastern England, large-scale immigration, including both men and women, occurred in the post-Roman era. Some early medieval individuals from central and eastern England derived 75%-100% of their ancestry from a population matching early medieval people from the area stretching from northern Netherlands through ...
17th century. The first notable Chinese known to visit Britain was Michael Alphonsius Shen Fu-tsung in 1687, who travelled to Europe with a Belgian Jesuit Father Philippe Couplet. Shen helped to translate Chinese works at the Bodleian Library, University of Oxford. He and Couplet left in 1688.