If Britain never passed the Nationality Act of 1948

There is no such thing as a labor shortage. The demand for labor is created by the demand for goods and services. If you have fewer people, you have less demand for goods and services.
. True in a closed system, but due to societal values (at the time for instance it was believed that married women shouldn't work, they were being selfish in taking a job that a single woman or man with a family to support desperately needed when they already had a husband to provide for them), age factors (pensioners and schoolchildren), those otherwise outside the active labour force (mainly the independently wealthy but also tramps and addiction victims) and other commitments which preclude free movement of labour (conscription to the armed services for instance) the population does not correlate with the labour force. Nor is Britain practising autarky or juche, she is a global trading nation and goods are being produced for export as well as domestic consumption. So when an economic niche has no one local trained/qualified to fill it or is not remunerative enough for those employed locally to consider switching into it or the young men who might normally have filled it are deployed on military service I think that we can with propriety describe the situation as a labour shortage.
 

CalBear

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Because during the 70s, both the economic recession and deindustrialization caused a lot of those migrants to lose their jobs. Not to mention that a large cultural gap existed between Europeans and non-Europeans. So in retrospect, it would’ve been much easier to simply repatriate them with payment rather than dealing with the issues associated with integration, poverty, and unemployment within those communities that still persist up until this day.
Oh, please DO expand on this.

I rather insist, and do it in the next 24 hours.
 

John Davis

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Oh, please DO expand on this.

I rather insist, and do it in the next 24 hours.

There are undeniably many cultural differences between Europeans and Middle Easterners/North Africans. And although not all, most immigrants are generally hesitant to adopt the cultures/values of the country that they settled on. So this causes the problems with integration those that I mentioned. Mainly over things such as burkas/hijabs, polygamy, and honor killing that are the norm in Islamic/Middle Eastern societies but are taboo in our own.
 
There are undeniably many cultural differences between Europeans and Middle Easterners/North Africans. And although not all, most immigrants are generally hesitant to adopt the cultures/values of the country that they settled on. So this causes the problems with integration those that I mentioned. Mainly over things such as burkas/hijabs, polygamy, and honor killing that are the norm in Islamic/Middle Eastern societies but are taboo in our own.

What you're describing here is not the actual situation of immigrants in Europe outside of racist propaganda and the imaginations of xenophobes. It seems very clear that this thread isn't an actual counterfactual scenario so much as it is a bigoted fantasy. That's not welcome on this board.

Actually, you've done nothing but post weird racist fantasies in your whole time on this board, so get gone and stay gone. Banned.
 

CalBear

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What you're describing here is not the actual situation of immigrants in Europe outside of racist propaganda and the imaginations of xenophobes. It seems very clear that this thread isn't an actual counterfactual scenario so much as it is a bigoted fantasy. That's not welcome on this board.

Actually, you've done nothing but post weird racist fantasies in your whole time on this board, so get gone and stay gone. Banned.
Beat me too it by thismuch.
 
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