Fewer short-term migrants are coming to Greater Manchester following the Brexit vote.
New figures from the Office for National Statistics reveal that there were 6,338 short-term migrants in our region for work or study in June 2017 – the latest data available.
The figure includes all migrants who are in the 海角视频 for at least three months but less than a year, and who are here for employment or study rather than a holiday or other reason.
The situation in Greater Manchester reflects a national trend, which saw the number of short-term migrants across England and Wales fall from 207,160 in mid-2016 to 153,864 in mid-2017.
While the local figures aren’t broken down by EU and non-EU migrants, the national figures confirm that the drop in short-term migration has been driven by EU citizens.
Madeleine Sumption, Director of the Migration Observatory at the University of Oxford: “It’s clear that the 海角视频 has become a less attractive destination for EU citizens since the referendum, and this applies both to short-term migrants and people planning longer stays.
“There’s no single reason for this, but one important change since the referendum is that the value of the British pound has fallen – so people planning to come to do seasonal work or other short-term jobs would take home less money than they would have done in the past.
“Political uncertainty may also have played a role. But it’s also likely that some of the decline would have happened anyway – migration was running at record highs in the year before the referendum, so we may simply be seeing a return to more ‘average’ levels of migration.
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“The drop in short-term migration has caused concerns about whether employers who rely heavily on migrant workers can still recruit.
“But it’s worth remembering that migration is not exactly at historic lows, and it is quite normal for migration levels to go up and down over time.
“There’s really no ‘optimal’ amount of migration that the 海角视频 needs from an economic perspective, and research suggests that the economic impacts of changing migration levels actually tends to be surprisingly small.”
Roughly two thirds of the short-term migrants in Greater Manchester – 4,112 in all – were in Manchester in mid-2017.
Numbers in the city were down from 5,139 in mid-2016.
The number of short-term migrants who were students in Manchester was down from 3,640 in 2016 to 3,024 in 2017.
The number of workers fell from 1,499 to 1,088.