13 May 2025, 11:14 | Updated: 13 May 2025, 11:28

By Drs Mazzilli, Ramafikeng & Mbasalaki, University of Essex

What the Labour government is proposing to curb immigration is shortsighted.

It will curb recruitment when the future care needs that face the UK are growing.

Rather, efforts should be directed towards improving working conditions of health and social care workers, which will subsequently greatly benefit the UK beneficiaries and service users.

We also need to look at how migrants are viewed. Back in 2023 the University of Essex funded our project ‘Economies of care: migrant health and social care workers in the UK post covid’.

Some of the testimonials from migrant care-workers in the South of England highlighted the issues they faced:

“So, I feel valued sometimes and other times. Yeah, I don't.”

“When as a........

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