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Content Published October 28, 2016

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Cabbages being harvested by migrant workers in Lincolnshire, UK.

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Content Published October 28, 2016

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Cabbages being harvested by migrant workers in Lincolnshire, UK.

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Content Published October 28, 2016

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Cabbages being harvested by migrant workers in Lincolnshire, UK.

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Content Published October 28, 2016

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Brassicas awaiting harvest in Linconshire, UK.

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Content Published September 26, 2016

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A English flag painted on a the door of home in Wisbech, Cambridgeshire,UK

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Content Published September 13, 2016

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A caravan in a Lincolnshire field,UK

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Content Published September 13, 2016

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Migrant workers from Eastern Europe hoeing the fields in Norfolk,UK.

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Content Published September 13, 2016

Antek, Denisa and Vendula, seasonal workers from the Czech Republic picking stones and hoeing weeds in the brassica fields of South Lincolnshire. Needing the application of the eye to determine between crop and invasive plants it is one of the few agricultural tasks that has yet to be mechanised or automated.

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Content Published March 24, 2015

Migrant workers from Eastern Europe shopping in Boston town centre on a Saturday afternoon.They’ve adopted the ‘gopnik’ look, popular amongst fans of 'blatnaya pesnya' - literally 'criminal’s songs’, a genre of music popularised by East European hip-hop artists but with its roots in 19th Century czarist Russia.

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Content Published March 24, 2015

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Migrant workers from Eastern Europe shopping in Boston, Lincolnshire, UK

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Content Published March 5, 2015

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Graffiti depicting the Virgin Mary cradling a bottle of alcohol in Spalding, Lincolnshire, UK. apparently respresenting the dependence of some migrant workers to drinking.

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Content Published March 5, 2015

A mural of the Blessed Virgin cradling a bottle of beer on the rooftops of Boston, Lincolnshire. The image appeared overnight, shortly after a vodka still situated on the edge of town exploded killing five Lithuanian men.

The men were named as Vaidas Krupenkinas (39), Laimutis Simkus (32), Ovidijus Mejeris (26), Ricardas Gecas (24), and Erlandas Duzinskas (18).

The inquest determined the likely cause was a cigarette igniting flammable vapours, with accidental death recorded as the verdict.

It is speculated that the mural reflects on how much of the the migrant worker demographic of the town depends on alcohol to ameliorate the conditions in which they find themselves.

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Content Published March 5, 2015

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Rooftop graffiti depicting the Virgin Mary cradling a bottle of beer in Boston Lincolnshire, UK. apparently representing the dependence of some migrant workers on alcohol.

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Content Published March 5, 2015

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Rooftop graffiti depicting the Virgin Mary cradling a bottle of alcohol in Spalding, Lincolnshire, UK. apparently representing the dependence of some migrant workers on alcohol.

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Content Published March 5, 2015

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? Si Barber 07739 472 922 Graffiti depicting the Virgin Mary cradling a bottle of alcohol in Spalding, Lincolnshire, UK. apparently respresenting the dependence of some migrant workers to drinking.

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Content Published February 3, 2015

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© Si Barber 07739 472 922 Two young women pushing prams through Boston marketplace,UK

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Content Published February 18, 2014

A hairbrush, a broken mirror, a plate.

A makeshift table in an abandoned pigsty inhabited by two Latvian women who came to the UK seeking work but found themselves homeless and eating dog food to survive. Wisbech, Cambridgeshire.

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Content Published February 18, 2014

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Migrant workers from Eastern Europe boarding a minibus for work in Spalding Lincolnshire.

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Content Published February 3, 2014

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Closed East European Shop in Great Yarmouth,Norfolk

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Content Published February 11, 2013

A room (kolhata) to rent advertisement in a newsagents window, King’s Lynn. The text is in Russian cyrillic and deliberately designed to appeal to prospective East European migrants tenants of a certain age. Anyone who went to school behind the Iron Curtain before 1991 learned Russian as part of the curriculum, and as part of the USSR’s cultural domination of its occupied territories. Although widely loathed and abandoned after the fall of communism, the practise of having a common language proved useful for migrants when those countries joined the EU under the A8 accession rules in 2004 and they were given the right to come to live and work in the UK. That meant Czechs, Latvians, Lithuanians, Slovakians, Slovenians, Poles, Hungarians and Estonians could communicate with each other. Quite useful if you’re trying to make yourself heard on a factory floor or field in the Fens. Even today If you go into any of the East European shops in the town the transaction will often complete with the assistant exclaiming “Spasiba”, the Russian word for thanks.

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