Today, Focus on Labour Exploitation releases a new report that provides a Blueprint for how to build better migration structures. This approach was developed by drawing on the struggles and needs of migrant workers themselves, to build a framework that can work concretely in a variety of contexts. Policy-makers, employers, sponsors, unions and others can take this framework and apply it, to help bring about a safer, fairer visa structure and migration system into practice.

Vulnerability is not intrinsic to migration; vulnerability is constructed. This can be through factors such as governmental agenda, bureaucratic processes, legislation or reform. Immigration policies and systems create risks and vulnerabilities to exploitation through complex processes, ineffective safeguards, and restrictive visa conditions imposed on migrant workers. We need to deconstruct the policies that create these risks, and redesign them to enable migrant workers to access rights and enjoy decent standards of work and living conditions.

Read the full report:

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With the Employment Rights Bill going through Parliament, we have an opportunity to turn the tide on the rampant labour exploitation that migrant workers face in this country.

Our latest video highlights the problems caused by restrictive visa systems, and the solutions to them: