MigrationWatch UK

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MigrationWatch UK is a non-profit, non-partisan think tank that claims to be restricting immigration to the UK in order to stabilize the country's population. The association has been studying immigration flows into the country since the Blair government and has made demographic data available for this purpose . Its work is assessed differently: while conservative opinion leaders attribute an improvement in the quality of public debate to the association, liberal media doubt the neutrality of its work. While some scholars see MigrationWatch UK as an anti-immigration advocacy group, others credit the organization for providing valuable information on immigration.

job

MigrationWatch UK was founded in 2002 with the aim of putting migration back into the focus of public interest. MigrationWatch UK focuses on monitoring and analyzing migration, integration and demographics in the UK. For this purpose u. a. so-called briefing papers (short studies ) written and published on various areas of society that are affected by immigration.

Organizational matters

The organization is chaired by Andrew Green , former British Ambassador to Saudi Arabia and former advisor to Conservative Tory Ministers Leon Brittan and William Waldegrave . In addition, the organization maintains a so-called Advisory Council , to which numerous scientists from the fields of demography , sociology , political and economic sciences belong.

Positions

According to MigrationWatch UK , over three million immigrants have come to the UK since 1997. In a year like 2010, more immigrants came to Great Britain than between the Norman conquest of England in 1066 and 1950. Net immigration in 2012 was 163,000 people. This is contradicted by the fact that England is already the most densely populated country in Europe alongside the Netherlands. MigrationWatch UK predicts that the UK's population will grow by more than 7 million people by 2018, including 5 million immigrants. Given this population growth, the organization advocates a reduced immigration rate of 40,000 people a year so that the population would remain below the targeted 70 million mark by 2050.

After the Brexit referendum , MigrationWatch UK spoke out in favor of a “hard Brexit”, for free entry and exit of visitors, business travelers and tourists from the EU and for limited labor migration from the EU based on professional categories .

reception

MigrationWatch UK is controversial, according to the Guardian 2002, for making claims of an overpopulated UK. According to conservative politician Jonathan Aitken, in 2005 MigrationWatch improved the quality of the UK immigration debate: “MigrationWatch has changed the administrative work of the authorities and the policies of the major parties on asylum seekers , work permits and immigrant totals. It has brought integrity and accuracy into the previously misleading government statistics on immigration. Understanding of the issue in all reputable newspapers and broadcasters has improved. "Dean Godson of the center-right think tank Policy Exchange wrote in The Times in June 2006 :" The dramatic change in the immigration debate in recent months is largely due to determination and the courage of one person to attribute the founder and chairman of MigrationWatch UK Andrew Green. "

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  1. ↑ Who we are ( Memento of the original from April 26, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Official website @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.migrationwatchuk.org
  2. ↑ MigrationWatch UK: What Can Be Done? , May 9, 2013
  3. ↑ a b Jonathan Aitken: Porridge and Passion . Continuum, London 2005, ISBN 0-8264-7630-9 , pp. 200-201.
  4. ^ A b Dean Godson: How the immigration barrier rose . In: The Times , June 10, 2006. Retrieved January 6, 2010. 
  5. ^ A b Onward march of lobby against immigration , The Guardian , December 1, 2002
  6. ↑ James Hampshire : Disembedding liberalism? Immigration politics and security in Britain since 9/11 , in Givens, Terri E .; Freeman, Gary P .; Leal, David L. Immigration Policy and Security: US, European, and Commonwealth Perspectives , p. 119, Routledge , London. ISBN 0-415-99083-1 .
  7. ^ Gavin Drewry: United Kingdom. The administrative History of Population Migration, 1800 to the Present: Uk Report , pp. 168–185 (183), in: Peri E. Arnold: National Approaches to the Administration of International Migration , International Institute of Administrative Sciences monographs, Volume 31, 2010, ISBN 978-1-60750-598-3
  8. ↑ How forecasts by Migrationwatch stirred up a political hornets' nest , Daily Telegraph , March 8, 2007
  9. ↑ Profile Advisory Council ( Memento of the original dated May 26, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Official website @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.migrationwatchuk.org
  10. ↑ MigrationWatch UK , April 2013, accessed June 1, 2013
  11. ↑ Harriet Agerholm: Migration Watch report criticized for 'risking British livelihoods'. In: The Independent. December 29, 2016, accessed January 27, 2018 .
  12. ↑ EU-UK movement should be largely unhindered post-Brexit, says Migration Watch UK. In: Business Reporter. October 25, 2017, accessed January 27, 2018 .
  13. ^ The right's 100 most influential: 50-26 . In: The Daily Telegraph , October 2, 2007. Retrieved January 6, 2010. 

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