Glen Warsaw; Poles in the Highlands.(Why Scotland welcomes eastern European workers)

The Economist (US) | December 16, 2006 | Copyright

A little bit like home

Eastern Europeans are saving Scotland's economy

MARZENA ZUCHOWSKA, a 26-year-old Pole, arrived in Inverness, the capital of the Scottish Highlands, in June. Within a week, she was packing fish at Strathaird Salmon, and feeling quite at home. "Scotland reminds me of Poland: the lakes and the mountains and the pine trees and the cold," she says.

She might also have added "the Poles", for they have flocked to the Highlands since May 2004 to do the low-paid jobs Scots have turned their noses up at for years, in tourism, ...

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