Madeleine Sumption and Will SomervilleMigration Policy Institute
The UK’s new Europeans
Progress and challenges
ve years after accession
Equality and Human Rights CommissionPolicy report
About this paper
The Equality and Human Rights Commission (the Commission) and the Migration
Policy Institute have a shared interest in immigration and the impacts of immigrationon society. This paper was prepared for the Commission but represents the views of theauthors and not ofcial Commission policy. This is the nal of three papers prepared inconnection with the major migration summit hosted by the Commission in 2009.
Contents
Executive summary 4
How do the recent migrants fare in the UK? 6How has the recent migration affectedlocal communities and workers? 7Policies to support equality in the UK 7
Introduction 8 What is special about therecent migration? 12
Examining the numbers 13A different kind of migration 16Migration from Romania and Bulgaria 20
Equality implications: how areeastern European migrants faring? 23
Economic integration 24Short-term vulnerabilities:precarious circumstances? 27Exploitation (or ‘exibility’?) 28Long-term prospects for upwardmobility and integration 30Integration 33The children of A8 immigrants:prospects for the future 34
Equality implications:the impact of A8 migration 36
The labour market impact of the recentmigration 37The scal impact of EU labour mobility 39Local and non-economic impacts 40
Conclusions and primary policy questions 44Bibliography 47 Contacts 52
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