Word: polished
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...positions migrants are filling, economists say, are either ones that locals don't want, or new positions altogether. In fact, the infusion of educated labor drove growth in host countries' most dynamic sectors. Chudzicka arrived with a diploma in economics and now stars in her own Polish-language TV show (see profile). The majority of expatriate Poles have at least a secondary education, and many have a university degree. Most are working at jobs - in hotels and restaurants, construction and agriculture - well below their skill levels. (Plumbers are coming too, but immigration officials do not keep track of how many...
That hasn't gone unnoticed in the rest of Europe. The Polish story is feeding the debate as new countries such as Romania and Bulgaria join the E.U. As the Union continues to expand to the east, the toughest question facing its older members is whether to open labor markets. Among ordinary Europeans, opposition to enlargement has focused on the fear of losing jobs and the impact on expensive social welfare systems. (Despite their positive experience with Poland and other Eastern countries, both Britain and Ireland decided to maintain labor restrictions on Romania and Bulgaria for the time being...
...from Eastern Europe to Ireland. Low-cost flights to Dublin from Katowice, Cracow and Wroclaw were jammed for months. Newspapers sprang up to serve the new arrivals; bulletin boards outside Catholic churches across Ireland filled up with notices looking for laborers, many of the advertisements written in Polish. In one English county, officials have begun erecting Polish road signs because immigrant truck drivers were getting confused...
...there significant signs of all this slowing down. Budget flights from Poland and other countries in Eastern Europe to Britain and Ireland are still full with young men and women ready to sample a new life. In addition to Chudzicka's TV show, Ireland alone boasts six Polish newspapers, two radio programs and at least a dozen Polish websites. Poles can hear Mass in their native tongue in 100 places of worship across Ireland; the community was just granted its own cathedral, a stone's throw from Dublin Castle, which has around 2,000 worshippers every Sunday...
...workers, most of them, like him, from Poland. Wasilewski hopes to return to his homeland some day. In fact, he'd like to move some of his own companies' production processes back there later this year. Meanwhile, his two young children, ages 5 and 8, are attending a special Polish school each Saturday. They are already bilingual...