The given article touches upon the basic statements of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland migration policy in 2010-2015 as well as the peculiarities of political struggle towards the migrant issues. During 2010-2015 in the UK, as in most European Union countries, the increase in the proportion of immigrants and their descendants in the total population of the country had been recorded; in this aspect, the attention of political and social institutions to this very issue has steadily increased. The UK immigration cluster population in the period analyzed is quite diverse and can be represented by the following groups: people coming from European countries, which have become full-fledged members of the European Union in 2004; foreign students; people fleeing from persecution in their home country; people arriving from outside of the European Union (Africa, Asia, Australia and New Zealand). In 1997, with the advent of the Labour Party led by Tony Blair to power, net immigration amounted to 107 thousand people a year, and in 2007 the figure was already 330 thousand. Man. In 1997-2007 net immigration was about 3 million, which was equivalent to 5% of the UK population. About 2/3 of them were not the European Union citizens. Problems and difficulties associated with heavy influx of migrants to the UK during 2010-2015 led a course on tightening of the state migration policy. These measures included a significant tightening of tests on the English language skills by immigrants; review about 300 licenses of educational institutions (mainly colleges) issued bogus visitors visas to study; decline in the arrival of experts allowances (including qualified); during 2010-2012 500 UK language schools have lost the right to sponsor foreign students, many of whom came to the training, and then tried to stay in the country, get a job, and subsequently residence permits. However, these measures were of secondary nature in relation to the primary needs of the British economy in a constant inflow of labor force, and did not contribute to solving the problems with the integration of immigrants and their descendants. In the UK there were institutions that were interested in preservation of intense immigration flow. Local authorities in the limited funding could attract local residents on low-paid occupations and were forced to hire immigrants. The study is based on the analysis of the original English-language sources - the election manifesto of the Conservative and Labour parties, materials statistical compilations «United Kingdom: Migrants».
Velikobritaniya, parlamentskie vybory, Leyboristskaya partiya Velikobritanii, Konservativnaya partiya Velikobritanii, social'naya politika, migracionnaya politika, Toni Bler, Gordon Braun, Devid Kemeron, Tereza Mey, migranty, migracionnoe zakonodatel'stvo
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