Abstract
At the 2001 Census, there were 4.9 million people living in the UK who had been born overseas. They represented a snapshot of an ongoing migration process. Both the timing of immigration and the prevalence of emigration (return or onward) will affect the profile of the foreign-born population and, in particular, the balance between those foreign-born people who are very recent immigrants and those who have been in the country for many years.
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Rendall, M., Salt, J. (2005). The foreign-born population. In: Chappell, R. (eds) Focus on People and Migration. Focus On. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-75096-2_8
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