Fed up migrant to turn down residency as he has ‘more freedom’ in home country | UK | News

An immigrant working in Jersey for more than 20 years, he said he would turn the residence down because he thought he was “not freedom”. Every year, thousands of seasonal work permits are given to migrant workers from Kenya, India and the Philippines. However, when the worker lives on the island, the worker feels like “on the tasma, and he wants to go back to Kenya.

“Continuous anxiety, constant worry,” he said. Observer. “You don’t know if you’re back.

In 2024, people who went to Jersey were given 2,432 seasonal workers’ permission, which has increased more than twice since 2021. They were introduced to bring more labor to the island at the beginning of the century.

Permission allows immigrants to work for nine months of the year and requires the other three months to spend out of the country.

However, David says that even if a residence is offered, he will not take it due to working conditions that make him feel depending on his employer.

“The only thing we need to contribute here is that we were not a member of this society,” he said. “You can be yourself in Kenya. You can be free. [In Jersey] You are not sure if you have this job next year… It is better to have freedom. You must be free to be human. “

Since 2018, the number of people from a country other than Europe living in Jersey has increased by 150%.

As of December 2023, the number of people with Jersey, British and Europe, except for Europe, rose from 1,720 to 4,300 people.

The biggest increase was between Kenya and the Philippinine population, while the number of European citizens fell by 7% in the same period.

At the end of 2023, there were 103,650 people who lived in Jersey and increased by 350 compared to the previous year.