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1. MORE RECENTLY, PEOPLE COME TO BRITAIN FOR SAFETY, JOBS AND A BETTER LIFE.
2. HUGUENOTS (FRENCE PROTESTANTS) CAME TO BRITAIN IN THE 16TH AND 18TH CENTURIES TO ESCAPE RELIGIOUS PERSECUTION IN FRANCE. 
3. MANY IRISH PEOPLE MIGRATED TO BRITAIN BECAUSE THERE WAS A FAMINE IN IRELAND IN THE MID-1840s.  MANY IRISH MEN WENT ON TO BECOME LABOURERS AND HELPED TO BUILD RAILWAYS AND CANALS ACROSS BRITAIN.

1. THERE WAS A HUGE TASK OF REBUILDING BRITAIN AFTER THE 2ND WORLD WAR (1939-1945), SO THE GOVERNMENT ENCOURAGED THE HELP OF WORKERS FROM IRELAND AND OTHER PARTS OF EUROPE.
2. THE JEWS CAME TO BRITAIN TO ESCAPE RACIST ATTACKS CALLED POGROMS FROM 1880-1910; IT WAS THEN CALLED THE RUSSIAN EMPIRE AND FROM THE COUNTRIES THAT ARE NOW CALLED POLAND, BELARUS AND UKRAINE.
3. PEOPLE FROM THE WEST INDIES WERE INVITED TO WORK IN BRITAIN IN 1948.
4. THE 2ND WORLD WAR WAS BETWEEN 1939-1945.
5. DURING THE 1950s, CENTRES WERE SET UP TO RECRUIT PEOPLE FROM THE WEST INDIES TO COME AND WORK AS BUS DRIVERS.
6. DURING THE 1950s, THERE WAS A SHORTAGE OF LABOUR, SO THE UK ENCOURAGED IMMIGRANTS TO COME HERE TO WORK FOR THEM.
7. IN THE LATE 1960s, LESS PEOPLE STARTED MIGRATING FROM SOME AREAS BECAUSE THE GOVERNMENT PASSED NEW LAWS TO RESTRICT IMMIGRATION TO BRITAIN. IMMIGRANTS FROM ‘OLD’ COMMONWEALTH COUNTRIES SUCH AS NEW ZEALAND, CANADA AND AUSTRALIA DID NOT FACE SUCH STRICT IMMIGRATION CONTROLS.  DURING THIS TIME, BRITAIN ADMITTED 28,000 PEOPLE OF INDIAN ORIGIN, WHO WERE FORCED TO LEAVE UGANDA AND 22,000 REFUGEES FROM SOUTH-EAST ASIA.
8. FOR AROUND 25 YEARS, PEOPLE CAME TO BRITAIN FROM THE WEST INDIES, PAKISTAN, INDIA, AND THEN BANGLADESH TO WORK HERE AND SETTLE DOWN.

1. DURING THE 1950s, TEXTILE AND ENGINEERING FIRMS FROM THE MIDLANDS AND NORTH OF ENGLAND SENT AGENTS TO INDIA AND PAKISTAN  TO FIND SOME WORKERS.
2. IN THE 1980s, THE LARGEST IMMIGRANT GROUPS WERE FROM THE UNITED STATES, AUSTRALIA, SOUTH AFRICA AND NEW ZEALAND.
3. IN THE EARLY 1990s, GROUPS OF PEOPLE FROM THE FORMER SOVIET UNION CAME TO BRITAIN TO LOOK FOR A NEW AND SAFER WAY OF LIFE.

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