DEJAN, a 51-year-old Serb standing outside a scruffy apartment block for migrant workers in Nitra, an hour’s drive from Bratislava, the Slovakian capital, couldn’t be happier. He has a job in a factory making parts for televisions and earns €450-750 ($540-900) a month, depending on the season. Back in his hardscrabble town of Zajecar, in eastern Serbia, there are hardly any jobs and even if he could find one, he reckons he would earn only around €180 a month. But Slovakia’s booming factories are desperate for labour, and they are turning to Serbia to find it.
Serbia and Slovakia have old historical ties. Their languages and culture are close. Two of central Bratislava’s streets are named after Serbian heroes. And so the number of Serbs coming to work in Slovakia has been climbing since 2015. In July the registered number was 9,363. Though small, that was a 61% increase since January. The number will only rise, says Mirolsav Kralik, the president of the Slovak-Serbian Chamber of...Continue reading
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