POLAND’S most literal labour market begins shortly after dawn. About 30 women and a similar number of men wait in separate groups beside a road half an hour’s drive south of Warsaw. The eager crane their necks to search for cars, the more resigned pace and smoke. When a Volvo pulls up they dash towards it, awaiting offers of work. The youngest is 20, the oldest a gap-toothed 53-year-old. All are Ukrainian.
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Ukrainians queue to cross the Shegyni-Medyka checkpoint on the border with Poland, some 100 km from Lviv, Ukraine, June 11.
