Access to Safe Migration — ATLEU

Access to safe migration

Restrictive, tied and temporary visa schemes in the UK are driving exploitation, trafficking and debt bondage of migrant workers.

We are campaigning so that migrant workers can access rights and remedy when abuse and exploitation occurs, and for an end to policies which drive exploitation.

Briefings

We’ve seen the exploitation of migrant workers become endemic across the UK, particularly in sectors like care and agriculture. Workers’ rights need to be strengthened, and the loopholes, restrictions and lack of redress that paves the way for exploitation, closed.
The Seasonal Worker visa scheme requires wholesale reform - many of the issues for workers on the scheme are complex and interrelated, meaning it is not conducive to worker welfare to reform it on an incremental basis.