Abstract
A PAPER by Mr. H. Leak and Mr. T. Priday on the subject of migration from and to Great Britain was read at a meeting of the Royal Statistical Society on January 17. Factors affecting post-War migration, of which the chief are social insurance, national assistance to emigrants, and the United States quota system, were fully considered and also the main features of post-War migration, particularly in regard to the inter-censal period 1921–31. A comparison of pre-War and post-War migration shows that the annual average of the net outward movement of British subjects from the British Isles to places out of Europe was about 193,000 in the ten years 1904–13 and 112,000 in the years 1921–30. In 1931, however, there was a change from net emigration to net immigration, the excess inward in that year amounting to 37,000, while for 1932 the figure is estimated to be about 50,000. Although, in the future, emigration may be on a considerably smaller scale than in pre-War days, it may still, within the next one or two decades, be on a scale commensurate with the ability of Great Britain to release population of the ages which the Dominions require, regard being had to the diminishing numbers of new entrants into the labour market.
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Migration from and to Great Britain. Nature 131, 125 (1933). https://doi.org/10.1038/131125c0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/131125c0