Y7 Geography by

1. Annotate your global map with the major sources of UK immigration over the past 300 years. Be sure to highlight the country of origin (Google Earth might be useful for this).

•Between the 17th and 18th centuries, many French Huguenots moved to England to escape persecution

•In the 1840s, many Irish people migrated to Britain because of a series of famines

•Between 1890 and 1910, many Jewish people fled parts of the Russian Empire like Ukraine to avoid persecution. This happened again during the 1930s, except from Germany

•In 1948, the Empire Windrush brought the first immigrants from Jamaica.

•In the 1960s, many Indians and Pakistanis came to work in the textile mills of Yorkshire and Lancashire

•In 1968, Kenyan Asians came to Britain when they were expelled from Kenya

•In 1972, Ugandan Asians came to Britain when they were expelled from Uganda

•In 1993 the European Union (EU) brought in the 'single market', which gave EU citizens the right to live and work anywhere in the EU. By 1997 a million people had come to Britain from the poorer countries of eastern Europe, especially Poland

2. Research one group and write a paragraph explaining why they moved to the UK. What kind of migrants are they? Did they move because they were 'pushed' away from their home country? Or because they were 'pulled' towards the UK.

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