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When they say that white Britons will be in a minority by 2066, these ethnic minorities also include other white immigrants from EU countries such as Irish or Polish immigrants as there are around 2 million Eastern European migrants in the UK. The number of Asian immigrants is currently 3 million but Asian communities in the UK are in the process of being outnumbered by Eastern Europeans with the huge influx of migrants from Bulgaria and Romania. Asian immigration to the UK started in the 1950s and it took more than 50 years for British Asians to reach 3 million but the number of Eastern Europeans has already exceeded 2 million within a decade after the Poles were allowed to immigrate to Britain in 2004 without any restrictions.
The number of Romanians and Bulgarians working in the UK has risen by 15% year-on-year, Office for National Statistics (ONS) figures show. In the last three months of 2014 there were 172,000 people working in the UK who had been born in one of the two eastern European countries. The figure is 22,000 more than the same period in 2013. In January 2014, Bulgarians and Romanians gained the same rights to work in the UK as other EU citizens.
Romanian and Bulgarian migration: Rise in workers in UK - BBC News
It lays bare the effect of decades of immigration and claims that white Britons will be in a minority by 2066. In the study, minorities are classed as people who also describe themselves in censuses as Irish or another nationality, as well as by their skin colour. According to the data, around a fifth of people in the UK are non-white or non-British. But this is expected to rise to a quarter by 2025, a third by 2040 and reach up to 38 per cent by 2050. The increase from 2010 to 2050 in the UK – by 22 percentage points – is the highest of the main western countries analysed. Prof Coleman pointed to a study which suggests “the crossover for the whole country when the combined population of all ethnic minority groups together would exceed the population of white British will occur at around 2066.
Migrants change UK forever: White Britons 'will be in minority by 2066'
The number of Romanians and Bulgarians working in the UK has risen by 15% year-on-year, Office for National Statistics (ONS) figures show. In the last three months of 2014 there were 172,000 people working in the UK who had been born in one of the two eastern European countries. The figure is 22,000 more than the same period in 2013. In January 2014, Bulgarians and Romanians gained the same rights to work in the UK as other EU citizens.
Romanian and Bulgarian migration: Rise in workers in UK - BBC News
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It lays bare the effect of decades of immigration and claims that white Britons will be in a minority by 2066. In the study, minorities are classed as people who also describe themselves in censuses as Irish or another nationality, as well as by their skin colour. According to the data, around a fifth of people in the UK are non-white or non-British. But this is expected to rise to a quarter by 2025, a third by 2040 and reach up to 38 per cent by 2050. The increase from 2010 to 2050 in the UK – by 22 percentage points – is the highest of the main western countries analysed. Prof Coleman pointed to a study which suggests “the crossover for the whole country when the combined population of all ethnic minority groups together would exceed the population of white British will occur at around 2066.
Migrants change UK forever: White Britons 'will be in minority by 2066'
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