Polish immigrants leaving Britain: What the Poles did for us
Also 2009's "How Bad is It? Immigrants Leaving Great Britain, U.S.":
...*Which may explain this headline from the Daily Mail last week:From The Telegraph:
'We're fed up with the cold weather and the NHS,' say asylum seekers trying to break OUT of Britain
Thousands of applications for asylum have been cancelled, officials say, with Finland chartering flights to take the refugees back to Baghdad from next week
Thousands of Iraqis who arrived in Finland last year have decided to cancel their asylum applications and return home, with some saying they dislike the frosty weather and find the locals unfriendly.
More than 4,100 applications for asylum have been cancelled, officials say, with Finland chartering flights to take the refugees back to Baghdad from next week.
Though the majority say they yearn to be reunited with their families, others are simply disillusioned with the Nordic way of life, according to a local travel agent in Helsinki.Muhiadin Hassan, who is selling up to twenty tickets to Baghdad each day, told Reuters: "Some say they don't like the food here, it's too cold or they don't feel welcome in Finland. There are many reasons."
Finland's intake of asylum seekers rose nearly tenfold last year, after applications increased from 3,600 in 2014 to 32,500 in 2015....MOREThe headline is a takeoff on a factoid in 2012's "Migrant Workers Leaving Greece, Going Home to Albania....":
...from a 2002 Federal Reserve Board Open Market Committee transcript:
“There is growing anecdotal evidence that this may be due to Mexican immigrants departing the United States in search of a better life in Mexico