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30 Aug 2018

Exploiting the Opportunity? Low-skilled work migration after Brexit

Over the past 15 years, free movement has been the main legal channel through which migrant workers have come to the UK to work low-skilled jobs. In 2017, an estimated 500,000 people born in EU countries were employed in low-wage jobs such as cleaning, waiting tables, warehousing and food processing. Under current government plans, free movement will come to an end in 2021 and so this route will no longer exist, raising the question what — if anything — will replace it.

This report, from Madeleine Sumption and Marina Fernandez Reino of Oxford University’s Migration Observatory, addresses this question.

Download the Migration Observatory low-skilled work post-Brexit report here 

 

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