How can we count immigration and integration?

DYNAMICS OF DIVERSITY: EVIDENCE FROM THE 2011 CENSUS

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• Simply being born abroad is an unclear measure of the level of assistance required by immigrants and their offspring to integrate into the communities where they settle.
• The process of integration of immigrants is better measured directly using data available in the census for the first time in 2011. This includes national identity, passports held, main language spoken and English language proficiency.
• 13% of the population are foreign-born; 20% have an ethnic identity other than white British, 9% have a non- British national identity, 9% have a foreign passport, 8% have a foreign main language, and only 2% do not speak English well.
• A third of the population born abroad were born in other EU member states, including Ireland. The majority (54%) of those born in other EU member states were born in countries that joined the EU before 2004.
• People born abroad make up the greatest percentage of the population in London (37%). Elsewhere it is 9%.
• In the London boroughs of Newham, Westminster, Kensington & Chelsea, and Brent, people arriving from overseas since 2004 make up a quarter of their residents, and more than half of all their residents were born outside the UK.
• Half of the population born abroad arrived aged 15-29. This is a period when they are economically productive and bring knowledge and expertise to the communities where they settle.

Published : 31st December 2012

Publisher : Centre on Dynamics of Ethnicity (CoDE)  [ More From This Publisher ]

Commissioner : Joseph Rowntree Foundation  [ More From This Commissioner ]

Rights : Centre on Dynamics of Ethnicity (CoDE)

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