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What effect does a million Eastern European workers have on the British economy? For related archive programmes visit http://www.bbc.co.uk/archive/white.

Meet the immigrants to the United Kingdom, legal and illegal. In Lyme Regis, a young woman arrives from Latvia to start a new job as a hotel worker. In Calais, refugees gather to try to cross the Channel to enter Britain illegally, after travelling thousands of miles. In Romania, a father says farewell to his young family before moving to England to start a new life as a taxi driver.

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Thu 24 Apr 200802:05
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  • Mon 14 Apr 200822:35
    BBC One except Northern Ireland & Wales
  • Mon 14 Apr 200823:05
    BBC One Wales
  • Mon 14 Apr 200823:35
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  • Thu 24 Apr 200802:05
    BBC One