How are the Home Office going to get to these people? This is why we are worried. A closer look at the Romanians interviewed by the Guardian reveal that all have come to Britain to better their lives, not to take benefits. Several parents tell heartbreaking stories about leaving children behind with grandparents, so desperate have they been to provide for their families.
He was lured to the UK from Germany by a large nursing home group in November They would call in sick, especially after the weekends, and then the Romanians would be called to go in and cover for them.
There was only two centimetres of snow. I had to take my car and personally pick up other Romanians. These are elderly people, some have dementia, in my country you are one with the elderly, you have responsibilities and you get that drummed into you.
Our work ethic and sense of responsibility is higher than it is here. It is a narrative that fits well with Brexiters and one that is often heard in the Romanian community, says Tudose. It is a bit racist, but it is their own decision. We are all here to work, we pay taxes, to pay rent, we pay insurance, buy food, pay bank fees. There will be a price to pay.
Hannah, who declined to be photographed or named, has been in Britain for two years and she is considering going home as she has only one friend in London. She typifies the type of hard unsung work that is done on a daily basis by EU workers, mainly east European, to keep the shelves full in supermarkets, the rooms clean in hotels and the streets free of rubbish.
It was very hard work, in a warehouse kept at between zero and two degrees. You had to work very hard every day, must pick up 2, boxes, boxes of milk, pizza, cooked meats, juice, yoghurt. I was determined to get the job so I picked up crates an hour, more than I needed. In her 18 months in the warehouse she says there was just one British worker.
Roxy, as she is known, with a masters degree in agricultural engineering under her belt, first came to Britain for adventure. She has been working on the harvests in a berry farm in Kent since Any English person who comes here and asks for a job at the farm, will get a job with open arms, but they are not coming and still people in this country say we are stealing their jobs.
They hate us. They do not like us. She says fewer Romanians are now coming to Britain as word has got back that it is not all a bed of roses for agricultural workers, despite the lure of good money. It is not easy. Romanians make up the second-largest group of non-nationals in the UK, after Poles. They might go home because they understood Brexit all wrong - and they think they will be deported or expelled from Britain. With the UK being the first country to leave the EU, many of those who have moved here from EU countries are feeling alienated and unwelcome.
Approximately 3. But Marius-Constantin Budai, the Romanian minister for labour, told ITV News that a million jobs awaited Romanians wanting to return from the UK, with the government in Bucharest launching a campaign to encourage workers to return. But with a political programme of economic austerity and a growing hostile environment for migrants, many are starting to question the returns on their investment. I am hoping nothing bad will happen, but if the worst is to come, I know I have the alternative to choose to go back home.
By Rachel Nurse. People with Romanian nationality have become the second most common non-British population living in the UK. Of the 65,, residents in the UK, 6. A problem with the collection of statistics means there is no overall net migration figure. The government has committed to a target to reduce net migration to below , in its manifestos of , and Wading through the vast amount of immigration data published by the Office for National Statistics, the Home Office, and the Department for Work and Pensions, one thing becomes clear: Britain remains an attractive destination for visitors and migrants.
The overall population is up, the number of visas is up, and citizenship applications are up.
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