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and French flag face masks outside Parliament in 2017
Wednesday, July 11, 2018 –
6:25am
British voters feel more positively about immigrants than at any
time since 2011, a major new study has revealed.
The British Social Attitudes survey, seen as the
country’s most rigorous polling exercise, found just 17% of Britons
thought immigrants had a negative impact on the economy, while just
23% thought they undermined Britain’s cultural life. It is the
lowest level since the question was first asked in 2011.
“Both counts are markedly lower than when the questions were
last asked in 2015, before the Brexit referendum campaign,” says
the Financial Times. And almost twice as many
respondents said that migrants enrich Britain’s culture (44%) than
undermine it (23%).
“There is little sign here that the EU referendum campaign
served to make Britain less tolerant towards migrants,” the British
Social Attitudes report said. “Rather they have apparently come to
be valued to a degree that was not in evidence before the
referendum campaign.”
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Quartz says “the study confirms what other surveys have
suggested for a while”: that although the UK is leaving the EU,
with many proponents of Brexit citing greater control of borders as
a motivating factor, “Brits have become distinctly more
positive about immigration”.
Polling firm Ipsos Mori, which recently found that some 44%
of respondents now believe immigration’s impact on the UK has been
positive, compared with 30% in 2015, points to two opposing reasons
for the shift.
Over a third (39%) of people say the Brexit vote has since
highlighted the contribution immigrants make to the UK, while 41%
are more positive because they feel more reassured that immigration
has or will come down.
However, despite support for the economic and social benefits of
immigration growing, the Ipsos Mori survey found the majority of
the public (59%) still want to see immigration come down.
This apparent contradiction has played out across Europe since
the height of the migration crisis.
Since 2015, the numbers of refugees arriving in Europe has
plummeted, yet a wave of nationalism anti-immigrant parties have
made huge gains with the promise of cracking down on new
arrivals.
“It’s an invented crisis,” says Matteo Villa, a migration
specialist at the Italian Institute for International Political
Studies. “The high flows of the last years have bolstered
nationalist parties, who are now creating a crisis of their own in
order to score cheap political points.”
“It is the paradox of Europe’s migration crisis”
writes Patrick Kingsley in The New York Times. “The actual number of
arriving migrants is back to its pre-2015 level, even as the
politics of migration continue to shake the Continent”.
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