The skills and education background of migrant workers in Breckland

This article presents the quantitative findings from a research project which was carried out in the Breckland district of Norfolk between February and April 2005. The survey was commissioned by the Keystone Development Trust in Thetford and was funded by Breckland District Council, the European Social Fund and the UK Home Office. The findings suggest that migrant workers in Breckland have general characteristics which reflect a wider national and European trend. There is a clear polarisation between a more established migrant worker community (in our case Portuguese) which is characterised by older migrants with lower levels of education and generic skills and a more recent community which is increasingly of Eastern European origin, young, middle class, well educated and skilled.

This article presents the quantitative findings from a research project which was carried out in the Breckland district of Norfolk between February and April 2005. The survey was commissioned by the Keystone Development Trust in Thetford and was funded by Breckland District Council, the European Social Fund and the UK Home Office. The findings suggest that migrant workers in Breckland have general characteristics which reflect a wider national and European trend. There is a clear polarisation between a more established migrant worker community (in our case Portuguese) which is ...  [+] Show more