The Economist interviewed more than a dozen children of eastern European immigrants. They displayed a mixture of optimism and confusion about Britain and their place in it
. Many young adults came, especially from Lithuania and Poland—and, a few years later, from Bulgaria and Romania. They soon settled down and had children. In 2008 one in 27 babies born in England and Wales had a mother from one of the newcountries; last year the proportion was one in 14. Others have grown up in Britain after arriving as young children.
Their parents’ climb from the very lowest rungs of the employment ladder may have shaped the teenagers’ views of the world. In a generally glum country, they are strikingly optimistic about their economic prospects. “One hundred per cent”, replies a young man, when asked about the chance that he will be able to live a more comfortable life than his parents.
Not all of their parents are so sanguine. Many send their children to Saturday schools to make friends and learn about the homeland in a monolingual environment. Other parents find churches or outfits such as Karma Leicester, a Polish football team that runs a youth academy. “They don’t want us to forget our roots and stuff,” says a girl in the Welwyn Garden City school, with a barely detectable eye-roll.
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