Poles increasingly settling in the UK

"Poles feel increasingly at home in the UK and Ireland and an a growing number of Polish children are being born there," said professor Krystyna Iglicka-Okólska from the European Migrations Study Center at Warsaw University. By large Poles perform physical work and are most often employed in the construction sector (20%), restaurants and pubs (15%) and hotels (11%). They usually receive a net salary of zł.5,600 to zł.8,300 a month, prompting 55% of those living in the UK and 49% in Ireland to declare that they will not come back to Poland, and if they do it will be no sooner than 5 to 10 years from now. One fifth of those wishing to stay abroad have completed higher education. (Gazeta Wyborcza, p. 1) E.B.