Ben Judah no longer recognises the city in which he was born. In London, 55 per cent of the population is not ethnically British, 40 per cent were born abroad and five per cent live in the shadowy illegal economy. An acclaimed foreign correspondent, Judah decided to investigate the unreported stories on his doorstep by interviewing many recent immigrants. The new London is where Polish builders rail against the Romanians undercutting their prices; where homeless Roma men play the fiddle on the street in exchange for a few pounds; and where Filipino maids look for the chance to escape overbearing Arab employers.
These voices offer an insight into our capital’s unreported world. They show us the prejudices of migrants and their aspirations, their cruelties and the cruelties done to them, and what they think of the English people whose houses they build and whose children they look after.
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