The residential compound near the Orlen refinery on the outskirts of Plock, Poland, on Aug 8.
Photographer: Bartek Sadowski/BloombergAfter Weaponizing Immigrants, Europe’s East Finds It Needs Them
Poland and Hungary have been among the fiercest opponents of immigration, but their economies are desperate for foreign labor.
The neat two-story rows of white containers stretch right up to the towering cranes of the vast construction site. Clothes can be seen hanging in some of the windows.
The compound will eventually be home to as many as 5,200 workers, most of them coming from Asia. The Indians, Pakistanis, Filipinos and Turkmen are being employed by Orlen SA, Poland’s largest company and the government’s economic champion, to build a new $6.3 billion plastics facility at its sprawling refining complex.