An article examined patterns and practices of marriage-related migration to the United Kingdom. It considered how varying marriage practices, social and political contexts, and policies of both receiving and sending countries might work to influence marriage-related migration streams. It highlighted the limitations and lacunae in existing research in the area, and the danger that immigration policy made on the basis of partial evidence might produce unexpected consequences.
Source: Katharine Charsley, Brooke Storer-Church, Michaela Benson, and Nicholas Van Hear, 'Marriage-related migration to the UK', International Migration Review, Volume 46 Issue 4
Links: Abstract
Date: 2012-Dec
A report presented information from academic research and surveys on key aspects of long-term emigration from the United Kingdom. It considered where emigrants went, how long for, and their motivations. The evidence suggested that emigration was mainly for work, and that key destinations for British citizens were Australia, Spain, the United States, and France. Reasons and drivers for emigration appeared to vary across citizenship groups.
Source: Rosemary Murray, David Harding, Timothy Angus, Rebecca Gillespie, and Harsimran Arora, Emigration from the UK, Research Report 68, Home Office
Links: Report
Date: 2012-Nov
A paper estimated of the scale of uncertainty surrounding forecasts of environmental migration to the United Kingdom. Experts anticipated that environmental migration would rise over the next 50 years: but they had limited confidence in their estimates. It was likely that only a minority of environmentally driven migrants would arrive as 'displacement' movers. Mediterranean Europe was cited as a potential source of environmentally driven migrants, not because this region was most at risk from climate change in global terms but because of the relative ease of migration from there under European Union legislation.
Source: Allan Findlay, David McCollum, Guy Abel, Arek Wisniowski, and Jakub Bijak, A Delphi Survey of Immigration to the UK to 2060, with Particular Reference to Environmental Mobility, Working Paper 28, Centre for Population Change
Links: Paper
Date: 2012-Oct
An article examined the initial location of recent pupil immigrants in England and their subsequent internal migration and emigration. Pupil immigrants were highly geographically mobile in the short period following their arrival.
Source: Stephen Jivraj, Ludi Simpson, and Naomi Marquis, 'Local distribution and subsequent mobility of immigrants measured from the school census in England', Environment and Planning A, Volume 44 Number 2
Links: Abstract
See also: Ludi Simpson, Naomi Marquis and Stephen Jivraj, 'International and internal migration measured from the school census in England', Population Trends 140, Summer 2010, Office for National Statistics
Date: 2012-Mar
A briefing paper examined the impact of migration on recent and future demographic trends. Half of the increase of the United Kingdom population between 1991 and 2010 (2.4 million in absolute terms) was due to the direct contribution of net migration.
Source: Alessio Cangiano, The Impact of Migration on UK Population Growth, Migration Observatory (University of Oxford)
Links: Briefing
Date: 2012-Jan