When did mass immigration from the Carribean, India and Pakistan begin?.........?

Question

Also......Where do most of these people live?
What sort of work did the first immigrants do?

Answer 1

In the 50s and 60s when our government realised they could get longer hours and pay cheaper wages.

I'm no history buff but i believe majority of early immigrants started work in transport industry because the workers wanted better pay and conditions and there was no money for it. (Economy was still recovering from WW2). So Gov't looked elsewhere and found all these peope who would come here and work because our weekly wage was equivalent of a years wage for them.

As for where they lived when they arrived, I believe South London.

Answer 2

Mass immigration from the Caribbean started in the 1950s.
They were invited here due to the male labour shortage after World War II, not because they would accept lower pay, as Chad suggested.

Most Caribbean people lived in the cities of London, Manchester, Birmingham and Bristol, where most second generation west indians still reside.

West Indian men worked on London Transport mainly and women went into nursing and midwifery.

Answer 3

If you mean immigration into the UK, it began in numbers in the late 1940s. The first ship to bring immigrants from the Carribean was the Empire Windrush which arrived in 1948 (for more details see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empire_Windrush and http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/modern/windrush_01.shtml). They tended to live in the poorer suburbs of the larger cities which the indigenous population wanted to move from. Men were employed in things like the transport industry which, again, the indigenous population wasn't keen on because of the unsocial hours involved. Indeed, London Transport had, for many years, a recruiting office in the Carribean. Women did things like menial cleaning jobs, many in the health service, again jobs which others didn't want. Immigration from the Indian subcontinent was later. Many Asian people didn't, in fact, come directly from there, but from African countries (e.g.Kenya, Uganda) which ejected their asian populations.

Remember, however.that there were immigrants in the UK long before the 1940s. These, however, were mainly asian and chinese sailors who settled in small areas near seaports, e.g. Cardiff (Tiger Bay), Liverpool and on Tyneside. many of these married English women.

Answer 4

Mainly during and after the second world war. The UK needed Labour for factories and rebuilding work so invited people living in the commonwealth to migrate to Britain

Answer 5

After the big brother show.