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Module 1: Understanding migration

By the end of this module you will understand:

  • Why people come to the UK and where they come from
  • The economic impact of immigration
  • The different types of immigration status
  • How immigration affects the right to work and to access state support
  • Attitudes to immigrants in the UK.

This module has eight components, beginning with a short quiz to test your knowledge about immigration in the UK and an opportunity to reflect on your own attitudes to migrants and their use of services in the UK.

1. Quiz (If this doesn't open as a full screen slide show, go to 'Slide Show' in the menu bar and and select 'View Show'.)


2. Reflective Practice

When I hear the term ‘immigrant’, the first few words that come to mind are:


3. Reflective Practice

When I hear the term ‘asylum seeker’, the first few words that come to mind are:


4. Reflective Practice

‘Migrants take jobs and put an unfair burden on services in the UK’. Do you agree or disagree? Please say why.


5. Presentation


6. Reflective Practice

Thinking of the headlines you have read at the end of the presentation, what do they suggest about the writers' attitudes towards migrants?



7. Reflective Practice

What might the impact of these headlines be on the newspaper readers?


8. Resources