BRIEFING - Net migration to the UK www.migrationobservatory.ox.ac.uk

BRIEFING Net migration to the UK AUTHORS: Madeleine Sumption Peter William Walsh Ben Brindle PUBLISHED: 2 2/01/2024 NEXT UPDATE: 08/07/2024 www.migrationobservatory.ox.ac.uk BRIEFING: Net migration to the UK This briefing covers the scale of immigration and net migration in the UK since the early 2000s and under the post-Brexit immigration system. [...] For more discussion of the economic impacts of migration, see the Migration Observatory briefings, The Fiscal Impacts of Immigration in the UK, and The Labour Market Effects of Immigration. [...] The Migration Observatory briefing note, Why has non-EU migration to the UK risen?, explains these figures in more detail, and more information on the drivers of work and student migration is available in the Migration Observatory briefings, Work visas and migrant workers in the UK and Student migration to the UK. [...] Possible explanations for this decline include the economic recovery in southern European countries following the Eurozone crisis; the decline in the value of the pound after the referendum, which made work in the UK less attractive; and uncertainty about the political climate. [...] More detail on how EU net migration has changed following the Brexit referendum and COVID-19 pandemic can be found in the Migration Observatory briefing EU Migration to and from the UK, and the impacts of lower EU net migration in the labour market are discussed in the Migration Observatory report, How is the End of Free Movement Affecting the Low-Wage Labour Force in the UK? Projections of future.