I always love one of the first scenes of "Men in Black". Will Smith and his colleague are searching for "illegal aliens" on the US/Mexican border. You must have seen it, it's very cleverly done.....it really calls into question the validity of referring to other humans as "aliens" when simply they are in a place in the world fenced off and controlled by groups of people with more resources. Gloria Andalzua's book "Borderlands/La Frontera" gives an interesting potted history of the movements of different peoples in North America/Mexican areas....

The question is not so much why people accept such low wages - many of them feel they have little other options. The question is why people think it is OK to pay other people such low wages knowing they have such few options....

I have no sympathies with any colonial power, European or otherwise.... feeling a British European identity is not the same as agreeing with everything the EU does as a bureaucratic machine. Some have argued it would be easier to reform the machine from within than from outside. Others said leaving is part of the reform. So far the jury's out...as nothing major seems to have happened since the referendum anyway, apart from the value of the pound dropping.

Hopefully it's not the calm before the storm:-)