Zembla follows a group of angry citizens in Boxtel who take action against a planned migrant hotel on the edge of the municipality. The Netherlands has approximately half a million migrant workers from Central and Eastern Europe. The current system is accompanied by exploitation and increasing pressure on society. Zembla investigates the position of migrant workers in our society and examines which factors have led to migrant workers in the Netherlands reaching the lower limit. Monique Kremer of the Advisory Council on Migration states that labour migration is good for the treasury, but she also sees negative consequences for society: "You see that most of the benefits go to employers, and the burdens to the wider society." How this can lead to social unrest can be seen in Boxtel in Brabant. Here, on the edge of the village, next to a hamlet of 100 residents, a migrant hotel for 400 people is being built. Marly van Leeuwen represents a group of concerned citizens. They think the number is too many: "400 is disproportionate." The citizens feel overwhelmed by the arrival of the migrant hotel and are angry about the actions of their municipality. For example, they were not allowed to have a say in the number of migrant workers. According to responsible alderman Mariëlle van Alphen, this could not be otherwise: "About the number: we cannot change that. That was the starting point of this tender procedure." The alderman believes that it is precisely the large scale that makes it possible to guarantee humane housing and quality. The situation in Boxtel is symbolic of many municipalities in the Netherlands, where citizens are diametrically opposed to their municipal government. There should be a national policy, but according to labor economist Ronald Dekker, there is little attention for it in national politics: "You also have to realize: those associated problems, they are local and relatively small, from a national government perspective. The fact that there is a housing problem in Boxtel is a negligible problem in the larger story of Dutch economic and labor market policy." In the broadcast, experts argue for a radical change of political course. Kremer: “If there is a policy that is more based on broad prosperity, then I think that more considerations will be made about: who do you want to come to the Netherlands and where will they work? And then I imagine that we will no longer import people into sectors where working conditions are poor.” Research by: Frederick Mansell and Laurens Samsom Final editing: Roelof Bosma Subscribe to our channel: http://bit.ly/ZEMBLA_BNNVARA Listen to our research stories in our podcast: Spotify podcast: https://spoti.fi/2UBbCQ6 Apple podcast: https://apple.co/3wVX4ZA Follow us here: Instagram: / zembla_bnnvara Facebook: / zembla.tv Twitter: / zembla LinkedIn: / zembla-bnnvara