United Kingdom Immigration by Country

Should have gotten Sri Lanka. :P Surprised to see Jamaica, Zimbabwe and Lithuania on the list. Got all the rest.

Lithuania was my second guess. They own a car wash in Brandon, Suffolk. :)

Never been to Suffolk. Never been anywhere in the UK outside of London and though I've been to London on many different occasions, add the time I've spent there all together and it probably is less than two weeks. I would have guessed Jamaica for the Netherlands definitely. You see Jamaican guys on the streets of Amsterdam all the time.

Sure they aren't Suriname? I am not sure I'd be able to tell the difference. And then there's the folks from the Dutch Antilles too.

Yeah pretty sure. Though I guess it's possible some people from Suriname might dress like Jamaicans, once they start talking it's pretty easy to spot the real ones.

Missed Jamaica too but got Zimbabwe because it used to be a British colony.

No Jamaicans at all? Do you work for the census people?

To me Jamaican accent/dialect sounds quite distinct from that of Trinidad, Suriname, Barbados, etc.

Since leaving this comment in 2014, I spent probably another week total in London, and the last time I was there I met a Lithuanian girl.

and no I didn't mean people with dreadlocks. I mean I was approached several times by people who looked Jamaican, who spoke with a distinct Jamaican accent and dialect, and when I asked where they were from they told me they were from Jamaica. Most of them were trying to sell drugs.

Estonia only has just over 1m people; in order to meet the 100k threshold for this quiz, nearly 10% of their entire population would need to live here!

As a Brit, Jamaica was my first guess. It was a British colony, part of the Empire, and remains part of the Commonwealth. Post WW2 the British government invited many Jamaicans and others from the Caribbean to the UK because of the labour shortage. There are many areas of London with large Jamaican populations, like Brixton for instance. It's all been in the news recently because of the government's mishandling of immigration documents, leading to British Afro-Caribbeans who have been here for generations suddenly finding themselves declared non-British citizens and facing deportation. See Windrush Scandal

What country do you mean quizmaster? Hmmmmmmm.

is this going to be another England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland debate again? If it is, save it...he says UK which is the above four countries. The fact that they may or may not be a sovereign nations doesn't matter in this quiz.

btw if you are whining about Ireland being a choice they are not a part of the UK

I call BS. Turkey wasn't here? With all of those kebab shops?

Man, there a LOT of Poles in the UK! Also surprised at the number of Irish and Jamaicans in the UK. Obviously both have ties to the country historically (and Ireland is of course very close geographically) but it's still surprising considering that the two countries have small populations.

Ireland seemed like an obvious one. So many cultural and historical ties and Northern Ireland is part of the UK.

There are also a lot of poles in Pattaya.

no money, no honey

Philippines was a surprise. Oh well, even if I thought of it, I wouldn't of been able to spell it. :)

As I remarked on my US immigrants quiz, nobody should be surprised by the Philippines. Filipinos are everywhere.

Given the population ratio I feel like I run into more Kiwis than Aussies abroad, relatively. It should be 4:1 in favor of the Aussies but in my experience it's more like 2:1 or 3:1. Met a lot of Kiwis in South Korea. And just met two at a hostel in Sofia last week.

also, wouldn't have*

Mee-OW! Anyway, the Philippines was no big surprise, the NHS would collapse without Filipinos.

Too much Poles. We must stop :< (yes, I'm Polish)

Stunned Romania isn't on here

Its very sad that Poland is second :(

I think you are on the right track but got it backwards, I don't think he is proud to be 2nd and sad he isnt 1st

-.- I thought I put in Pakistan but I didn't!

I thought I had put Zimbabwe in my first go.... oh well, glad to see we made it onto the list :)

LOL...We Indians are everywhere

That's true - proud to be british indian

Like AOL Free Trial discs in the 1990s.

Is the polish figure per city?

Interesting list. You never see people complaining about Irish or American immigrants, yet they make up a good proportion of them.

On the contrary, many people complain about American immigrants. Not much love for Americans outside of America, however justified that view may be.

I have only heard people complain about American tourists, never immigrants.

Nor do immigrants of any other nationality.

And about forcing customs... MacDonalds is nearly everywhere (but antarctica) ;)

For those that missed the smiley face, I meant that as a joke.

Don't complain about Irish immigrants? You don't know what you're talking about.

There's so many polish people because of the connections between the countries in the war. Polish people would come to the UK to help work in exchange for the UK helping Poland in the war.

The Netherlands aswell, you hear polish everywhere

This quiz is UKIP's worst nightmare. Personally I think it's great to see so many different nationalities and cultures enriching us.

Bah. missed Romania, Philippines and Somalia.

Realized half way through that the picture was luggage and not cold on the cob.

Where's UKIP when you need them?

What? That is so sad! Do you want no diversity in this country? If this was a joke, it wasn't very funny!

Studies in the US have shown that immigrants here commit crimes at significantly lower rates than native-born citizens. I bet that you would find similar results in the UK.

I suspect that would depend on the sorts of crimes you look at.

I think (don't know if it is similar in all countries) The first initial generation usually are extremely hardworking, it is often the next generation that is born, that can have a tendency to get into trouble. They are inbetween 2 cultures, with a lot more freedom and opportunities than their parents.

It is hard to explain this in text in a different language, hope it comes across as intended.

In unpolished words what I often see; first gen very hard working and often very humble (depending on country of origin) moreso than people from the country they migrated to. Next gen often very spoilt, can get away with a lot. Though youth in general seem to feel a lot more entitled than a few generations ago (or even 25 years). It has nothing to do with "race" just mix of 2 cultures. Similar aged people in the country of origin life a very different life and usually get into trouble less.

Nothing of this is about how the amount of crime compares between immigrants and non immigr

UKIP are just where you left them - down the pub, ranting about bloody immigrates.

I'm one of those 793,000 Indians in the UK!

why isnt syria on this list

The numbers aren't big enough.

i said republic of ireland and didn't get it right.....

Oddest group of countries I have ever seen... :)

... or China.

HOW DID I MISS IRELAND

Well then perhaps some of them are Italian citizens but were born in the UK.

You couldn't have known it QM but a very apposite day to re-post this. At last, despite the utter madness of brexit, there are signs of a lessening of the backwards approach to this topic here. "Immigration status: Ministers reverse May-era student visa rules" https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-49655719 It's a start, at least.

Because of Brexit, not despite. With the ability to control migration from EEA countries that Brexit gives, British attitudes to migration have become more positive - as if the issue was control rather than xenophobia for the vast majority of people who were concerned about immigration as an issue. And so with the political problem of populist propagandists prattling on about a plethora of proverbial 'Polish plumbers' (I think my P-key is stuck!) gone, the pointless scapegoating of non-EEA graduates of British universities (that pretty much no one had a problem with in the first place), to show that we can have control over migration, can stop. Especially as it turns out that the problem wasn't the Poles themselves, but the policy that allowed them to move here no questions asked.

The Conservative party has for a while perceived that people want less immigration (particularly their voter base), which led to a variety of policies known as the "hostile environment" (because to these people openly admitting to hostility towards people who have come from other countries is excellent PR) over which their was later a scandal (the Windrush scandal). The Conservatives were right. People did want less immigration, which was one of the most important reasons why the Brexit vote happened. But now that the people who wanted a reduction in immigration are too busy worrying over Brexit, the Conservatives are able to reverse the extremely immoral policies that they put in in the first place, just so long as they are taking back control from the EU by having a political party with a majority of minus 45 seats in Parliament make our laws for us instead.

Theresa May (as Home Secretary and Prime Minister) both doubled down (hostile environment and all) and made a thing about having a bad immigration policy, but all the set up for Windrush was under New Labour or before, and non-EEA students I knew were getting deported for not finding work after a couple of months in the 00s. It wasn't a specifically Tory thing, but a long-term (since the late 60s when sucking up to the EEC by throwing the Commonwealth under the bus to be let in?) Governmental bias letting mostly-white Europeans in without questions, and then scapegoating mostly non-white non-Europeans for the concern about a lack of control over the amount of Europeans migrating to the UK. As for a minority Government: Parliament voted against a General Election that would end minority rule twice last week (not to mention no No Confidence Votes). The opponents of the Government prefer to seize Government functions in the Commons and legislate the Government into obeying their agenda.

Somehow I missed Kenya?

Nativists in every country would like to disconnect from every part of the world if they could.

Doh, got Latvia and Zimbabwe first try yet forgot Kenya! Was trying to think for ages what other African countries the UK colonised lol