Reuters ReutersGraphics Adolfo Arranz Jitesh Chowdhury Gerry Doyle Mariano Zafra Heather Somerville Doug Cameron Alistair MacDonald The Wall Street Journal SCMP Graphics Davies Kaliz lee Alvin Chang The Pudding In a joint investigation led by Lighthouse Reports, the Financial Times investigated the phenomenon known as “brain waste,” where immigrants who fail to work in their field of study end up being overqualified for their new jobs or even becoming unemployed.

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This is what happens when newsrooms are diverse, and have a plurality of lived experiences!!! Amazing work🔥🔥🔥🔥 Halima Salat Daniel Howden, Lighthouse Reports, and all the distributed teams on this reporting!!

Brain waste is real: nearly half of college-educated migrants in Europe are overqualified for their jobs.

Unless European states reform themselves to truly accommodate migrants and their skills, all this potential will keep going to waste.

'Working with Financial Times @El_Pais & Unbias the News at #IJF24 [Lighthouse Reports] found nearly half of college-educated migrants in Europe are overqualified for their jobs & nearly 2x as likely as natives to be unemployed'

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The absolute human wreckage that's created by the scapegoating of people on the move as smugglers

Super interesting reporting from Lighthouse Reports and @ft into brain waste in Europe. Well worth a read!

'If migrants worked the same jobs and earned the same wages as comparable natives, the European economy could grow by €33.8 billion.'