In the report entitled “The UK’s New Europeans Report “, by the Equality and Human Rights Commission, which looked at the skills and employment patterns of eastern Europeans since their countries joined the European Union, the government stated that about 1.5 million workers from Eastern Europe, predominantly Poland have come to the UK since May 2004, and the number stilll resident in the UK is about 700,000.
But Prof Krystyna Iglicka, of Warsaw's Centre for International Affairs, a Polish expert on migration says claims that half of all Polish immigrants to Britain have returned home are not true. She said Poland saw no evidence of this.
Prof Iglicka told the BBC's Today programme that Polish research indicated the contrary. Official estimates for Poles working abroad rose consistently until 2008, when they fell only very slightly. "From our side this is not true," she said. "We do not see them here; we do not see them in any other different countries. Her own estimate, based on oficial figures is that about a million Polish migrants are still in Britain.
Is the estimate of the number of Eastern Europeans remaining in the UK under estimated deliberately of is it just due to inaccuracy?
Claims over Polish immigrants' return 'not true'- BBC
Claims that half of Poles have returned home from Britain 'not true', says Polish immigration expert - Mail Online
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