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Seasonal worker visa puts migrants at risk on UK farms

Don’t be fooled: the UK’s seasonal worker visa for migrant labourers is not a ‘safe route’

Seasonal worker visa puts migrants at risk on UK farms
Labourers harvest asparagus on a UK farm in April 2024 | Chris Ratcliffe/Bloomberg via Getty Images. All rights reserved
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“[Do we need] to put up with being treated like slaves?” asks a worker on a farm in Scotland.

“We are slaves,” writes another.

We often hear comments like this at the Worker Support Centre (WSC), an NGO supporting marginalised and isolated workers in labour sectors with a high risk of exploitation in Scotland. Most of the people we support work in seasonal agriculture on isolated farms.