Job Shortage Fuels Racial Tension

Competition for jobs and housing is increasing racial tension between local residents and new immigrants, according to new research.

Four out of 10 said Britons treated them as an equals but nearly as many - three out of 10 - said they did not.

The Joseph Rowntree Foundation also found a five-fold increase in the number of eastern European immigrants intending to stay in Britain.

In April 2004, just 6% said they had planned to live in the UK permanently. That has now risen to 29%.

“Women were more likely to have decided to stay than men, as were those with higher average earnings,” the survey of 333 migrants said.

The researchers found only a third of those interviewed knew how to register with a doctor.

Some 44% were sharing a room with someone other than a partner, but some were living in overcrowded conditions by choice to save rent.

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