Curiosity, intelligence and spirit of adventure: challenging misconceptions about low-skilled EU migrants

Curiosity, intelligence and spirit of adventure are the attributes of many low-skilled migrants to the United Kingdom. In this post, Simone Varriale challenges the misconceptions about EU migrants in the current debate. He presents two stories of Italian migrants that explain why dangerous assumptions about low-skilled migration should not feed into policy proposals, and why the government's current post-Brexit immigration plans have little to do with meritocracy.