Visa System Broken for Fishing Workers, FLEX Report Finds
A fairer visa system is needed to better protect fishing workers from exploitation, a new report has revealed.
The report– Unravelling the Nets: An Examination of the Seafarer Visa Policies and their Impact on Migrant Fishers in the UK– looked at the visa system used by migrant fishing workers in the UK, which “recieves little scrutiny”.
Compiled by Focus on Labour Exploitation (FLEX), the reportdraws out the “dangerous dependencies” built into the visa system used by migrant fishing workers in the UK, which the organisation said was a risk set...
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