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... Caribbean, the Indian Subcontinent, the Mediterranean and the Far East (Lago, 2006). More recently, political unrest in various parts of the world has increased asylum seeking during the latter 1990's and early parts of the 21st century, the top ten countries of origin are stated on the Migration Watch UK website and include Somalia, Iraq, Zimbabwe, China and Afghanistan. The Migration Watch website argues that Britain is a nation of emigrants rather than immigrants and states an interesting and valid point to any person who feels this country is 'burdened' the influx of different cultures entering into Britain, that 'our people' (white-British) have been leaving the country to all parts of the world since the middle ages. Britain's dominant migration experience has been to send its people abroad, rather than to receive them from overseas. The balance has been newly changed since the early 1980's, most probably due to increased ...