immigraiton

Ben Judah spent time undercover working alongside the undocumented laborers of London's new migrant underclass.

Post-Dickens: the new London is a mega-city of migrants

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The new London is an immigrant mega-city where nearly 40 percent were born abroad. This is no longer the city of Dickens. London now is a city of African night cleaners, Filipina maids and Romanian building bosses. A city where immigration has so utterly transformed the fabric that it has changed London’s very soul.