Polish Resettlement Act 1947

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Britain's social and economic areas had been hard hit by the Second World War, and to rebuild itself physically and financially it required a workforce to do it quickly and effectively. A problem was the lack of labourers. The Polish Resettlement Act 1947 enabled and encouraged a useful number^{[citation needed]} of Poles to emigrate to Britain for work. In terms of migration Push and Pull factors, the Push was the threat of the Soviet Union and the ravaged landscaoe of Poland at the time, and the pull factor was very much so this piece of legislation.