Migration and Europe.
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Migration and Europe - Revision How have migrants been treated, both historically and in more recent times? Have they always been welcomed? Consider: Immigration Acts, race riots, Race relations Act, violence etc. * Emigration - leaving one's country for another * Immigrant - a person who leaves her or his home country and settles in a host country * Migrant - a settler in a host country It is quite safe to say that migrants have not always been welcomed with open arms by the host countries. Natives often see them as 'stealing jobs' and 'scroungers'. More often than not migrants have had to face racism on the grounds of their skin colour or because of their culture, be it a different religion or customs. Since 1992 European governments have introduced a range of measures to reduce the flow of immigrants into Western Europe. Both national governments and the EU have made it clear that...


