Who keeps Europe's wealthy west going? Underpaid, invisible migrants from its east – and I went undercover to find them | Saša Uhlová

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Migration statistics don't tell us much about the people who leave their own countries and loved ones to work in poorly paid and physically demanding jobs. A lot of the time, we don't even see them - because they live somewhere out of sight in hostels and spend their days working.

I worked undercover alongside some of them for a number of months in 2022, to report on the shocking conditions facing EU citizens who work in the lowest-paid jobs in western Europe - often invisibly.

Saa Uhlova is a staff writer at the Czech online daily Denik Alarm. Her reporting was supported by the The Endowment Fund for Independent Journalism. Names have been changed and the project has been made into a film directed by Apolena Rychlikova