United Kingdom
Key Statistics
Data are 2024 UN data and may differ from national statistics agencies.
11845000
Immigrant Population
17.1%
Immigrant Share of Total Population
4805000
Emigrant Population
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Measuring Up? Using monitoring and evaluation to make good on the promise of refugee sponsorship
COVID-19 disruptions offered policymakers a timely opening to build monitoring and evaluation systems to strengthen and scale refugee sponsorship programmes.
Under Lockdown Amid COVID-19 Pandemic, Europe Feels the Pinch from Slowed Intra-EU Labor Mobility
COVID-19 exposed the European Union’s reliance on mobile Eastern European workers—and the inequality that underpins intra-EU labor mobility.
As Governments Build Advanced Surveillance Systems to Push Borders Out, Will Travel and Migration Become Unequal for Some Groups?
Border surveillance technologies are expanding rapidly and largely beyond public scrutiny, creating a two-tiered mobility system that advantages some travelers while rendering others effectively immobile.
Beyond Work: Reducing Social Isolation for Refugee Women and Other Marginalized Newcomers
Newcomers not in the workplace are at heightened risk for social isolation. Investment in economic empowerment, volunteering, and nonwork programs can combat social isolation.
Brexit Day—Is This the Dawning of the Age of Immobility?
Brexit Day, on January 31, 2020, marks a dramatic turn for the United Kingdom as it leaves the European Union, in significant measure because it wants to control its immigration destiny. But it remains unclear whether Brexit will allow the United Kingdom to cast a net wider for the global workers it seeks or will deepen the moat around the island. Either way, Brexit is likely to spark new forms of mobility—and immobility.
Refugee Sponsorship Programmes: A global state of play and opportunities for investment
As refugee resettlement falls globally, private investment in sponsorship programmes can catalyse new pathways and sustain existing ones.
On the Brink: Prospects for UK nationals in the EU-27 after a no-deal Brexit
A no-deal Brexit would strip nearly 1 million UK nationals in the EU-27 of EU citizenship rights overnight, exposing gaps in Member States' skeletal contingency plans.
Equipping Immigrant Selection Systems for a Changing World of Work (Transatlantic Council Statement)
Automation and aging workforces demand smarter immigrant selection systems that go beyond filling today's jobs to build tomorrow's competitive economies.
Foreign Fighters: Will Revoking Citizenship Mitigate the Threat?
Citizenship revocation against foreign fighters has unclear security benefits and risks two-tier citizenship, Muslim community stigma, and statelessness.
No-Deal Brexit: British Migrants with the Most to Lose
Brexit will have dramatically different effects on the Britons living in the European Union’s remaining 27 countries—from the roughly 285,000 in Spain to the mere 280 or so in Latvia.
