The exploitation of migrants has become our way of life – Guardian August 18, 2015 by Fulcrum When the foreign secretary, Philip Hammond, talked of the threat to the UK from “marauding migrants” at Calais last week, I decided to review the stories of the hundreds of foreign-born workers I have met in more than a decade of writing about their lives in the UK: those working for the mainstream economy, albeit hidden in the shadows of its long subcontracted supply chains, whether in food production, construction, care work, cleaning or catering. Felicity Lawrence. Guardian. 17 August 2015 FulcrumShareTweetShare