Going off at a tangent and stating the obvious in very shallow terms, the global market is as much a shift of people as it is goods and capital. E.g. economic, political and environmental degradation in Africa leading (forcing) to young Africans travelling thousands of miles across deserts, warzones and in make shift boats to Spanish islands and mainland etc. East europeans leaving their homelands as the internal economies and social infrastructure implodes, due to what is called errrrrrrr competition i.e. the free market.
Creates a situation where people have to leave, whatever the hardships, and faced with mass global media, there maybe some individuals who may or may not think the UK is Eldorado. But ultimately, people coming to the UK for work with no monies whatsoever isn't a new phenomenon e.g. the Jewish influx from eastern europe end of 19th and start of 20th centuries, Irish before and after, the Windrush Afro-carribean generation, Ugandan/Kenya Asians, and so on and so forth to the present.
I think we forget the past immigration cycles and the reasons underpinning them far to easily, hence ethnocentrism and racism pop up everytime there is a new cycle.
Britain is an obvious destination because of our colonial imperialistic past, even more so when you bring London into the equation because its more typical of a city state in terms of pluralism and has pockets of every nationality most of us can think of.
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