Jiang was working in a take-away shop, doing deliveries in the late afternoons and evenings; at the time of his interview he had another part-time job working as a packer in a factory. He had arrived in the UK from China via Argentina, where he had spent time working for his uncle. Leaving Argentina because he found it unstable, he had decided to come to the UK using a passport and visa organised by the snakeheads. On arrival in the UK he had found work as a labourer in the building trade. He had worked nine hours a day, anything from five to seven days a week, depending on what was available and needed by his South Asian employers. Most of the other labourers were Chinese and the daily rate was £55 in cash. Work in construction was not stable for Jiang, which he attributed partly to the economic crisis, which had made homeowners reluctant or unable to spend money on their houses. In a search for a less precarious working life, Jiang had found a job, through friends, delivering food for a take-away shop. Quickly Jiang realised that the work was not secure because his labour was required inconsistently, sometimes daily and sometimes not for a week. Being proactive, he changed jobs and has been working in the same take-away doing deliveries for the last few years.