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Karahnjukar Workers
It is estimated that over 1.500 workers, from China, Portugal, Pakistan and Italy among others are involved in the creation of Karahnjukar, Europe's largest dam- and the fourth highest in the world.
Situated in a remote area of Iceland, the workers face many challenges from adverse weather conditions, heavy tunnelling and the ability to cope with living in the isolated highland camps on the shadows of Vatnajokull, Europe's biggest glacier. The settlement is an artificial combination of workers of 45 nationalities all living in about a hundred prefabricated cubic cabins which transformed the area into the fifth most populated of Iceland. This project is the biggest industrial project in the history of Iceland, a USD 1.4 billion endeavour. The dam brought to light the huge migration for work that Europe and the world has experienced in the last decades; a migration of people skilled and unskilled abandoning their homes in search for work.
Situated in a remote area of Iceland, the workers face many challenges from adverse weather conditions, heavy tunnelling and the ability to cope with living in the isolated highland camps on the shadows of Vatnajokull, Europe's biggest glacier. The settlement is an artificial combination of workers of 45 nationalities all living in about a hundred prefabricated cubic cabins which transformed the area into the fifth most populated of Iceland. This project is the biggest industrial project in the history of Iceland, a USD 1.4 billion endeavour. The dam brought to light the huge migration for work that Europe and the world has experienced in the last decades; a migration of people skilled and unskilled abandoning their homes in search for work.
