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05/09/2016

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Journalist Gary Younge explores the impact of the Brexit vote on East Europeans in the UK.

Gary Younge explores what Brexit means for Eastern Europeans living in the UK. In the first episode,  Gary talks to Poles and Romanians in Bristol, an area that voted Remain.

The issue of immigration and immigrants dominated the EU referendum campaign with much of the focus on the increased numbers of Eastern Europeans in the UK following EU expansion in 2004. They are often talked about - but rarely spoken to. 

Writer and journalist Gary Younge meets Eastern Europeans who live in the UK. He explores the impact of the Brexit vote on these communities and considers how the vote and their experiences fit into the history of race and migration in Britain. 

In this first of two programmes, Gary talks to Poles and Romanians in Bristol, an area that voted Remain and which has longstanding Eastern European communities.


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Gary Younge explores what Brexit means for Eastern Europeans living in the UK.

Journalist and writer Gary Younge explores what Brexit means for Eastern Europeans living in the UK.

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