A subtle line that I only picked up on re-reading:<p><i>&quot;Fewer UK-born Bangladeshi women are returning to Bangladesh to find husbands to bring back, robbing the industry of another labour source.&quot;</i><p>Leaving aside the gender and racial discrimination in hiring restaurant staff, the reason why this &#x27;labour source&#x27; has been cut off is a deliberate act of government policy. Concerns about forced or coercively-arranged marriages have been growing, as concerns about immigration in general. Hence the introduction of the spousal visa: if a non-EU national marries a UK national and wants to immigrate, they have to prove that <i>their spouse</i> earns over £18k, which is slightly above an average year&#x27;s pay on minimum wage. If a family is traditional enough as to prevent their daughter from working outside the home, that also prevents them from importing a spouse.