2014-01-30 TT: The 800,000 people living in Britain with little or no English

[Taikakaulin]

The 800,000 people living in Britain with little or no English

Analysis of census figures shows how most people living in Britain who do not have a good command of English do not have a job

Almost 800,000 people living in England and Wales have little or no English, with more than half not working, official figures show.

A new analysis of findings from the 2011 census shows dramatic differences in the lifestyles and employment chances of migrants with a limited command of English compared with the general population.

Migrants with little or no English are 50 per cent more likely to be unemployed than native speakers and three times as likely to have no formal qualifications.

The study also showed that those who do work are condemned to the lowest paid and most laborious jobs if they do not have a working command of English.

Significantly the problem is most acute among women. Overall 60 per cent of those living in England and Wales but unable to speak the national tongue are female.

It follows warnings that women from countries such as Pakistan and Bangladesh brought to the UK as wives are suffering some of the greatest levels of social exclusion.

Overall the census found that there are 3.7 million people living in England and Wales for whom English – or Welsh in Wales – is not their main language.

The vast majority of them do speak the national language well but the census found that there are 785,000 who admit speaking English either poorly or not at all.

They amount to just 1.7 per cent of the population but a much larger proportion of the non-working population, analysts at the Office for National Statistics found.

While 72 per cent of working-aged people whose main language is English had a job on census day in 2011, just 48 per cent of those who struggle to speak English had a job.

The rest are not working, the vast majority of them economically inactive.

Only just over a third of women with little or no English are in work, compared with more than two thirds of men in the same position.

And three quarters of workers who do not have good English are employed in the most menial categories of work including as farm labourers, in factories or cleaning.

Women with little or no English who work are two and a half times as likely to be in basic jobs as migrants who do speak English well and five times more likely as native English speakers.

The figures show that housewives make up the biggest category of women who do not have a good command of English.

Overall almost 60 per cent of women who cannot speak English well are classed as economically inactive – meaning that they are not working or looking for work – compared with only a quarter of men with the same language levels.

Ann Cryer, the former Labour MP for Keighley – who was one of the first politicians to raise the issue of migrants failing to learn English – said there was a particular problem among the Pakistani and Bangladeshi communities in her former constituency with women being brought to Britain as wives and denied the chance to integrate.

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"We have had waves and waves of immigration to Bradford and Keighley district over the past 100 years but it has always been the case – if you think of the Irish, the Italians and even other Asian communities – they do not tend to bring husbands and wives in from outside the community, they tend to marry in the settled community but it is not happening wit the Pakistani and Bangladeshi community."

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/immigration/10605581/The-800000-people-living-in-Britain-with-little-or-no-English.html?fb

Mikähän uskonto mahtaa olla taustalla taas tämänkin ongelman kohdalla.

[Uuno Nuivanen]

No jaa, paljonkos UK:ssa on asukkaita, kymmenen kertaa se kuin Suomessa? Eikö Suomesta löydy 80 000 ummikkomamua?

[Taikakaulin]

No jaa, paljonkos UK:ssa on asukkaita, kymmenen kertaa se kuin Suomessa? Eikö Suomesta löydy 80 000 ummikkomamua?

UK:ssa asukkaita vuonna 2011 ollut 63 miljoonaa. Maahanmuuton seurauksena luku varmasti kasvanut, mutta en uskalla lähetä veikkaamaan tarkemmin.

Suomessa on noin 150 000 tuhatta maahanmuuttajaa, joista "varsinaisia" on alle puolet, sanotaan semmoiset 60 000. Ummikkomamuongelma on vielä toistaiseksi jotenkin siis hallittavissa.

[sense]

Joo ei osata edes englantia. Mutta täytyy kuitenkin muistaa että:

"EN: Siirtolaiset ovat voimavara Euroopalle

Euroopan neuvostossa Kyprosta edustavan Athina Kyriakidoun raportin mukaan siirtolaisilla yleisesti ottaen on myönteinen vaikutus talouteen. Myös suomalaisedustajat edellyttivät raporttia käsiteltäessä faktapohjaista keskustelua maahanmuutosta"

EN:n kukkahatut toivoivat mamukeskusteluun faktoja. 800 000 englanninkielen taidotonta Englannissa, joista puolet työttömiä, lienee fakta.

[Ink Visitor]

Nyt tämäkin on tutkittu: Englannissa on helpompi työllistyä, jos puhuu englantia

Britanniassa on tehty työmarkkinatutkimus, joka päätyi melko yllätyksettömään lopputulokseen.

Maan tilastoviranomaisen mukaan vain 48,3 prosenttia niistä Englannissa ja Walesissa asuvista henkilöistä, jotka puhuvat englantia joko huonosti tai eivät lainkaan, käy töissä.

Luku on kolmen kieliryhmän keskuudessa kaikkein alhaisin. Käytännössä tulos tarkoittaa siis sitä, että Britanniassa on helpompaa työllistyä, jos englanti sujuu hyvin.

Miesten kielitaidolla näyttää olevan vähemmän merkitystä kuin naisten, sillä tutkimuksen mukaan kielitaidottomista miehistä jopa 68 prosenttia käy töissä. Kielitaidottomien naisten kohdalla luku on vain 34,3 prosenttia.

Paras työllisyystilanne on niillä, jotka käyttävät pääkielenään englantia, sillä heidän kohdallaan työllisyysaste on jopa 71,9 prosenttia. Tässä joukossa 75,5 prosenttia miehistä ja 68,3 prosenttia naisista käy töissä.

Tilanne on melko myönteinen myös niiden kohdalla, joiden englannin kielen taito on hyvällä tasolla. Tässä porukassa työllisyysaste yltää 65,4 prosenttiin. Miehistä 72,3 prosenttia ja naisista 58,3 prosenttia on työssäkäyviä.

Englannissa ja Walesissa asuvien keskuudessa myös työttömyysaste on korkein niiden parissa, joiden kielitaito on heikko.

Huonosti tai ei lainkaan englantia puhuvista 12,3 prosenttia on ilman työtä. Englantia hyvin osaavista henkilöistä 9,5 prosenttia on työttömänä ja englantia ensimmäisenä kielenään käyttävistä 7,2 prosenttia.

Selvityksen tiedot ovat vuodelta 2011, ja siinä on tarkasteltu 16-64-vuotiaita Englannissa ja Walesissa asuvia henkilöitä.

http://www.talouselama.fi/tyoelama/nyt+tamakin+on+tutkittu+englannissa+on+helpompi+tyollistya+jos+puhuu+englantia/a2229847


People who could not speak English well or at all had a lower rate of employment
http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/rel/census/2011-census-analysis/english-language-proficiency-in-the-labour-market/sty-english-language-proficiency.html

[Taikakaulin]

Revealed: The one in nine schools where English is not first language

English is no longer the first language for the majority of pupils in more than one in nine schools, new figures have revealed.

Last year the majority of children in 1,755 primary and secondary schools spoke another language at home following a sharp increase in the number of pupils with foreign born parents.

In more than 200 schools nine in ten pupils do not speak English as their mother tongue, with children speaking as many as 14 different languages.

Across England, the number of pupils who have English as their second language has risen by a fifth to almost 1.1million in the past five years.

Of the ten schools with the highest proportion of children who do not speak english as their first language, all but two are outside London. All but one are rated as either good or outstanding by Ofsted, the schools watchdog.

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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/10611050/Revealed-The-one-in-nine-schools-where-English-is-not-first-language.html