26
May
2015
2015
Do you want more immigrants working in Britain, or more British jobs going to foreign call centres?
A new study suggests that companies employ immigrants in Britain as an alternative to sending jobs offshore
By James Kirkup
10:55AM BST 26 May 2015
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A lot of people come to Britain from foreign countries. We call them immigrants, and a lot of people aren’t happy about how many of them there are.
Some of those unhappy people worry about the effect immigration has on employment in the UK. Some worry that the arrival of foreigners somehow costs British people jobs, because the immigrants take jobs that would otherwise be done by British people.
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