RE: Ask a Brummie
May 17, 2015 at 10:51 pm
(This post was last modified: May 17, 2015 at 10:56 pm by Regina.)
Depends, some legal, some illegal
The UK gets a lot of immigrants from ex-British Empire colonies. That's why we have such large South Asian and Afro-Caribbean minorities (and relatively few Latinos). Some immigrants came after WW2 looking for work, and could get in easily because the British actually needed to bring in workers from the Empire after the war. That's how my Maltese family ended up here, contract work.
Although I think with the more recent waves of immigration it's because of conflict.
The UK gets a lot of immigrants from ex-British Empire colonies. That's why we have such large South Asian and Afro-Caribbean minorities (and relatively few Latinos). Some immigrants came after WW2 looking for work, and could get in easily because the British actually needed to bring in workers from the Empire after the war. That's how my Maltese family ended up here, contract work.
Although I think with the more recent waves of immigration it's because of conflict.
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