Recession spurs migrant workers to leave

Article reports ONS statistics showing that large numbers of eastern European workers are quitting the United Kingdom to return home in the most dramatic sign yet that the recession is stemming the flow of mass migration to the UK.

BBC News, 8.9.09: Turnstiles not floodgates for Polish workers http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/8244256.stm

ESO: Background information: Poles seek UK benefits as downturn bites http://www.europeansources.info/record/poles-seek-uk-benefits-as-downturn-bites/

IPPR: Shall We Stay or Shall We Go? Re-migration trends among Britain’s immigrants, August 2009 http://www.ippr.org/members/download.asp?f=%2Fecomm%2Ffiles%2Fshall%5Fwe%5Fstay%2Epdf

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