Chinese graduates in UK turn to gig work amid job crunch: ‘it helps me survive’
https://www.scmp.com/economy/china-economy/article/3315245/chinese-graduates-uk-turn-gig-work-amid-job-crunch-it-helps-me-survive?module=top_story&pgtype=homepage
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I was under the impression that foreign students came here to study and then returned once they graduated.
Genuinely not sure how that qualifies for a skilled visa.
> Before long, the side-hustle had grown into a thriving business. Lin registered a company in 2021, transferred to a skilled worker visa, and began hiring other young Chinese to handle an ever-growing flow of orders. Some months, his income reaches as high as £8,000
Not exactly delivering McDonalds on a bicycle
I’d rather these jobs go to the locals. It only takes a relatively small number of ‘students’ to take all the opportunities that a UK citizen would have had.
The graduate visa was reintroduced by Boris Johnson during the chaos of Brexit for two specific reasons : to quickly fill the workforce void left by the EU immigrants.
That was the initial reason, though, I believe it was an opportunistic move by Boris to have that Graduate Visa stay so the UK can continue getting cheap labour.
Sometimes it makes you wonder, given how recently China is glazed upon while UK is shitted on so much by the internet, why are these Chinese students would spend 30k a year to study and still want to stay at this shit country, not returning to the glorious utopia TikTok showed everyone.
With rising unemployment among citizens, this kind of thing is going to become a problem.
And Starmer wants to worsen things by granting free movement to the EU on top.