University “Sacks” Economist Who Wrote Paper Criticising Mass Immigration Policy

Prof. Steve Fothergill said his contract was terminated by Sheffield Hallam University after his paper found that half of the jobs in former coal mining areas were taken up by migrants. - Will Jones
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His paper, which explored employment growth in former mining areas in England and Wales in 2011-21, found that almost half the jobs created had been filled by foreign workers.

• It concluded that given the substantial “effort, energy and funding” ploughed into these areas over the decade to regenerate local economies and communities, the outcome was a “poor rate of return”.
• It suggested that the high numbers of jobs going to non-U.K. workers could explain why “vast numbers” of coalfield residents – 590,000 in the autumn of 2023 – were on out-of-work benefits.
• The paper also suggested the need to “better regulate migration to the U.K., to bring down the numbers so that more of the benefits of local regeneration feed through to local residents”.