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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 migration expert has disputed claims that half of Britain's Polish immigrants have returned to their home country.
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 but 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. She estimated about a million Polish migrants are still in the UK.
FROM THE TODAY PROGRAMME More from Today programme Are Poles returning home?FROM THE TODAY PROGRAMME More from Today programme Are Poles returning home?
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. Prof Iglicka told the BBC's Today programme that official estimates for Poles working abroad rose consistently until 2008, when they fell only very slightly.
"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 2008 showed only 22,000 former emigrants returned to Polish labour offices, in order to transfer benefits earned abroad.
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.
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