The survey shows that widely reported by the media, incidents of anti-immigrant overtones, including affecting the Polish community, significantly boosted anxiety Poles.
Close to 74 percent. fears of further negative attitudes towards migrants – is 35 points. percent. more than in the previous study, a week before the referendum.
– These are changes, the value of which is unprecedented and shows a very large load of social emotions – rated in the commentary to the study Marcin Duma, President IBRiS.
12 percent. Poles claimed they had personally experienced unpleasantness in the first days after the referendum. The vast majority of them – nearly 90 percent. – He stressed, however, that they were purely verbal, including insults, harassment and negative comments.
The attack on the Polish center, hateful leaflets
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Police are still investigating the circumstances of Sunday’s film of paint on the facade of the building Polish Social and Cultural Association, located in west London Hammersmith, slogans urging Poles to leave the UK.
officers also conduct an investigation into the distribution of leaflets containing hate speech against the Poles living in Cambridgeshire (central-eastern England) and cases of verbal aggression, including slogans “go back home”.
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Police said that within a week after the referendum adopted the reports of more than 330 incidents on hate crimes against racial and national – five times above average.
At the same time in Thursday’s statement emphasized that it is probably still “significantly undervalued” number, which results, among others the fuzzy border between unpleasant commentary and hate speech.
Back to Polish is a last resort
The surveyed by IBRiS Poles also indicated more frequently than before the vote on the fear of deterioration the economic situation (66 per cent., an increase of 21 per cent.).
at the same time quieter than the previous approach to the possible risk of introducing visas and work permits, which dropped to turn 24 and 23 percent. (Down by 19 and 20 percent.).
Despite the attacks on immigrants and fears connected with it, the vast majority of respondents still linked his future with Britain (79 percent.).
Back to Polish treat mostly as a “plan B” if the changes associated with leaving the country with the EU would be too great. Such a scenario is considering 22 percent. respondents. Unconditional return to the Polish plans to 5.5 percent.
The long-term nature of the stay of Poles in the UK highlights the fact that 47 per cent. respondents are willing to apply for a British passport, which have protected them from potential changes after the exit of the country from the Union. This option excludes 38 percent. respondents.
The Poles are not welcome in the UK?
The survey results show that while the Poles personally still overwhelmingly feel accepted (64 per cent . to 10 per cent. having a different opinion), is worried that the overall sentiment towards the Poles deteriorated significantly.
28.3 percent. of respondents said that they think the Poles are not welcome in the UK, compared to 26 per cent. the opposite view. 44 percent. no opinion.
– The study was conducted in a politically very hot period, so you want to repeat the measurement of the autumn, when the ratio of the UK with the rest of the European Union should have been more clear – said Duma.
Head IBRiS added that within a few months should clarify to the wider mood of social Britons against immigrants, “which will have a direct impact on the decision of Polish immigrants, whether in fact they want to remain in the country, or however it go.”
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Research Institute of Market Research and Social Sciences (IBRiS) was conducted June 29-July 1 on a sample of 2,562 Poles living in the UK.
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