Who keeps Europe's wealthy west going? Underpaid, invisible migrants from its east – and I went undercover to find them | Saša Uhlová
I took on three of the jobs shunned by western workers. Our mini-series reveals the hidden lives of those with no choice
Migration statistics don’t tell us much about the people who leave their own countries and loved ones to work in poorly paid and physically demanding jobs. A lot of the time, we don’t even see them – because they live somewhere out of sight in hostels and spend their days working.
I worked undercover alongside some of them for a number of months in 2022, to report on the shocking conditions facing EU citizens who work in the lowest-paid jobs in western Europe – often invisibly.
Saša Uhlová is a staff writer at the Czech online daily Deník Alarm. Her reporting was supported by the The Endowment Fund for Independent Journalism. The accompanying documentary film, Limits of Europe, was directed by Apolena Rychlíková. Names have been changed.
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