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| Migrant Poles return claim denied | |
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| A Polish expert on migration says claims that half of all Polish immigrants to Britain have returned home are not true. | A Polish expert on migration says claims that half of all Polish immigrants to Britain have returned home are not true. |
| The Migration Policy Institute had estimated 1.5m mostly Polish Eastern Europeans had come to the UK since 2004 and that more than half had now left. | The Migration Policy Institute had estimated 1.5m mostly Polish Eastern Europeans had come to the UK since 2004 and that more than half had now left. |
| But Prof Krystyna Iglicka, of Warsaw's Centre for International Affairs, said Poland saw no evidence of this. | But Prof Krystyna Iglicka, of Warsaw's Centre for International Affairs, said Poland saw no evidence of this. |
| "We do not see them here," she said of the reported returned immigrants. | "We do not see them here," she said of the reported returned immigrants. |
| Prof Iglicka told the BBC's Today programme Polish research indicated the contrary. Official estimates for Poles working abroad rose consistently until 2008, when they fell only very slightly. | |
| FROM THE TODAY PROGRAMME More from Today programme Are Poles returning home? | |
| "From our side this is not true," she said. "We do not see them here; we do not see them in any other different countries." | "From our side this is not true," she said. "We do not see them here; we do not see them in any other different countries." |
| She also said figures from that year showed only 22,000 returned at Polish labour offices, which they would have to transfer benefits owned abroad. | She also said figures from that year showed only 22,000 returned at Polish labour offices, which they would have to transfer benefits owned abroad. |
| Prof Iglicka's own estimate is that about a million Polish migrants are still in Britain. | Prof Iglicka's own estimate is that about a million Polish migrants are still in Britain. |
| The Migration Policy Institute is an independent think tank in Washington, which analyses of the movement of people worldwide. | The Migration Policy Institute is an independent think tank in Washington, which analyses of the movement of people worldwide. |