The 'illegal immigrants' who inspire / This is Hertfordshire, 30 Oct 2006

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Martina Smit
"The Roma teenager Ilona Marjanska now plays professional football for Leyton Orient Ladies
SOME have called them "bogus illegal immigrants". But one became a councillor, another a professional football player. A third gave up his career as a doctor to start a food business that now employs 30 people. And a fourth uses his wheelchair to fight for his nation.
Use the term "asylum seekers", and many would think of leeches who flock to Britain to suck the system dry. But a new exhibition at the Museum of London makes the voices of these often-misunderstood people heard. It tells the stories of their suffering and loss, but also of their quest to fit in and contribute to their new home."