Albanian migrants: Why are they coming to the UK?
This Is Why
Sky News
4.0 • 552 Ratings
🗓️ 11 November 2022
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
What do we know about those leaving Albania? What impact is it having on the country's economy? And how should the UK respond?
On the Sky News Daily podcast, Niall Paterson speaks to Sky's Siobhan Robbins, who's travelled to Albania to speak to people there, and Shqiponja Telhaj, an Albanian-born UK academic specialising in the economics of labour and migration.
Annie Joyce – senior podcast producer
Alys Bowen – interviews producer
Simon Windsor – archive researcher
Sahira Raja – archive researcher
Philly Beamont – editor
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| 0:00.0 | Sorry to interrupt your day, but I've just been diagnosed with dementia, and I'm going to need your help. |
| 0:07.1 | I'll need help when I can no longer button a shirt or recognise my own family. |
| 0:12.6 | My daughter will need help too. I worry this could ruin her life. |
| 0:17.7 | And we will all need help to find a cure to end the devastation of dementia. |
| 0:23.1 | I can't do this alone. |
| 0:26.0 | It will take a society to beat dementia, Alzheimer's Society. |
| 0:29.8 | A safe trip begins with TRIP. |
| 0:32.8 | Take a road trip with your family, get there safely. |
| 0:36.5 | Do your trip checks |
| 0:37.5 | T drop up on island fuel |
| 0:40.5 | R rest every two hours to |
| 0:43.2 | I inspect your pressure and tread |
| 0:45.8 | Trip for the weather ahead |
| 0:48.4 | A safe trip begins with TRIP |
| 0:51.4 | A safe trip begins with |
| 0:55.4 | 3RRRRRD |
| 0:56.8 | 4 trip checks before every long journey |
| 0:58.5 | National Highways |
| 0:59.9 | Two years ago |
| 1:02.0 | 50 Albanians |
| 1:03.4 | arrived in the UK |
| 1:04.6 | in small boats |
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