Not on a city level, but the latest migration statistics for the UK (for the YE June 2023) have been released showing net migration to the UK of 672,000. That is the second highest year on record, but only because the YE June 2022 figure was revised upwards from 607,000 to 745,000. The figures are pretty extraordinary, with non-EU migration reaching unseen levels, and speculation that most of the growth is due to migration from India and Nigeria. Throw in natural change of up to 100,000, and I don’t think the country has seen such a substantial increase in population in its history.
I’m incredibly pro-migration, but there are legitimate question marks over how sustainable this is, from an infrastructure and integration perspective, particularly for a country smaller than the state of Oregon.
Source: ONS: https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulat...endingjune2023
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Indians in the US today come from pretty economically mixed backgrounds, which is why it was such a big deal when California's governor vetoed the bill banning discrimination by caste. I have encountered people in corporate America that originated from high and low castes in India.
Europe is a different story, though, particularly within Britain. British Indians started migrating post WW2 and were much poorer, since they were mostly brought in to fill working class roles (alongside Afro Caribbeans during the Windrush era). Even today British Indians skew way more working class than Indian Americans, who mostly came to the U.S. through highly skilled worker visas. |
This is a bit too simplistic a review, particularly with Indian heritage migrants from East Africa, case in example, Rishi Sunak the current Prime Minister. The Indian (like all other) diaspora is very broad in its composition.
The recently departed Home Secretary, Suella Braverman, who held one of the four great offices of the UK Government, and who ironically bemoaned multiculturalism has a Hindu Tamil Mauritian mother and Christian Goan Kenyan father, whilst identifying as a Buddhist and is married to a Jewish man.