{"id":322006,"date":"2017-08-17T01:54:40","date_gmt":"2017-08-17T00:54:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/1-in-5-unemployed-people-in-britain-are-migrants-official-data\/"},"modified":"2017-08-17T01:54:40","modified_gmt":"2017-08-17T00:54:40","slug":"1-in-5-unemployed-people-in-britain-are-migrants-official-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/1-in-5-unemployed-people-in-britain-are-migrants-official-data\/","title":{"rendered":"1 in 5 unemployed people in Britain are migrants \u2013 official data"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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One in five jobless people in the UK are migrants, representing a 5.3 percent overall unemployment rate among non-British natives, according to official figures. The majority of those unemployed are from outside the European Union.<\/p>\n

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A total of 317,000 migrants are unemployed in the UK, according to figures<\/a> released by the Office of National Statistics (ONS) on Wednesday.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Of those, 98,000 are from within the European Union and 219,000 were born outside the bloc.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Those from outside the EU represent an unemployment rate of 6.2 percent, compared to four percent for migrants who were born inside the European Union.<\/p>\n

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The overall unemployment rate among migrants in the UK is 5.3 percent.<\/p>\n

The figures also show that the number of Romanians and Bulgarians working in the UK has risen by one-third over the past year, to a record 362,000.<\/p>\n

This means people from these two countries now make up one in six of all EU migrants living in Britain, helping to push the number of non-UK nationals from the European Union in Britain to 2.37 million.<\/p>\n

Although the number of Romanian and Bulgarian workers rose, migrant workers from EU countries including France, Italy, Spain, and Portugal fell slightly from the same period last year.<\/p>\n

Experts predict the UK could see a surge in migrant numbers before Britain officially leaves the EU in March 2019.<\/p>\n

Overall unemployment in the UK has reached a new 42-year low of 4.4 percent, with an additional 338,000 people currently employed compared to last summer.<\/p>\n

Employment Minister Damian Hinds hailed the numbers as \u201cgreat news.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n