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City landlord keeps immigrants in squalor »

Woman

An Edinburgh landlord has been profiting from housing over 50 Romanian migrants in squalid conditions, an exclusive investigation by The Journal can reveal. Dalear Singh, aged 30, has been charging migrant families from £300 to £400 per mon...

Tue 04 Dec 2007 by Miles Johnson | Read more »

Second class citizens »

Evan Beswick

As part of a series on shift workers, the BBC recently produced an interesting set of photos of a Polish bakery and its team of hardworking migrant workers – interesting not just in its depiction of the finishing touches to savoury cheese twists,...

Mon 03 Dec 2007 by Evan Beswick | Read more »

EU Enlargement: the human cost of our paranoia »

Whilst there are millions of people in this country who would disagree, Britain is far from being the fair and free country of our collective self-perception – the liberal democratic beacon shining on the rest of the world. In accepting the of...

Mon 03 Dec 2007 | Read more »

Restrictions on Bulgarians and Romanians are"wrong and counter-productive" »

The EU

On 1 January 2007, two and a half years after the unprecedented enlargement of 2004, Bulgaria and Romania became the newest members of the EU. However, unlike the other eight former Communist states which joined in 2004, Bulgarian and Romanian migrant ...

Mon 03 Dec 2007 by Matthew Barnes | Read more »

Driven underground: a migrant's tale »

The EU

Sonya came to Britain from Romania with the promise of work and a place to live. Told by a man in her home country that he would find her and her family jobs where they could earn £400 a week, the prospect of life in Edinburgh seemed all too temp...

Mon 03 Dec 2007 by Miles Johnson | Read more »

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