Migrants At Work is a lived-experience-led organisation that works alongside migrant workers to know, claim, and defend their rights in the UK.
Every year, the Home Office expands the shortage occupation list and issues thousands of sponsorship licences to employers. At the same time, migrants are blamed for "abusing" the system, while the system itself enables exploitation.
Through so-called safe and legal migration routes, workers are tied to employers under visa sponsorship, making it risky to speak up, refuse unsafe work, or leave exploitative conditions. Across all sectors, there is a power imbalance where exploitation can persist without breaking immigration rules.
Homegrown slavery: exploitation produced and sustained through state-managed migration pathways.
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Anti-slavery Lived Experience Advisors Panel Summit
- Member of the Justice For Sponsored Workers group attended an all day summit in Westminster with the independent anti-slavery commissioner, Eleanor Lyons.
- They represented Migrants At Work and Justice For Sponsored Workers in sharing the groups views and opinions on the governments proposed new Immigration and Asylum Bill.
- "I was honoured to get the privilege to meet Eleanor Lyons. She committed her time to listen to concerns that I shared as a victim of modern day slavery. I was listened to and heard and I felt very confident and empowered to open up and share my experiences as a survivor with lived experience. And I believe meeting with her and the discussion we had, will bring a huge change within the UK system, policy makers as well as decision makers."