RECENT IMMIGRATION INTO BRITAIN
Note: .. is used where estimated populations are less than 40,000 or where there is no information available.
Some nationalities are highly differentiated. For example, the Portuguese include many born outside Portugal (Angola, Mozambique and Brazil) and, in ethnic terms, fall into White European, Black African, mixed and other categories. For those not born in Portugal, the move to the UK may represent secondary migration within Europe. There is increasing interest in the secondary migration of European citizens, especially relating to those of refugee origin (Lindley and Van Hear, 2007), such as Somalis, Congolese, Tamils and Afghans from the Netherlands and the Scandinavian countries. 1.3 Gender of the ‘new migrants’ Analysis of immigration by gender is still poor (Kofman et al, 2005). Although available, the gender breakdown of the WRS in the Accession Monitoring Reports is only published nationally. For the period May 2004 to December 2007, the overall gender ratio of men to women was 57 to 43 (BIA et al, 2008). The LFS is the best source of data on gender differences of those living and working in the UK. Tables 1.4a and 1.4b indicate the numbers and percentages by nationality and sex. Among the foreign-born living in the UK in 2007 and who had not been in the UK a year earlier, there were 138,000 women and 137,000 men, or just over half women. The gender balance for those in work is quite different: there were 55,000 women and 83,000 men, or 40.4 per cent women (Salt, 2007).
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