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New Questions for the UK’s Seasonal Worker Scheme
FAWN member and agricultural labour expert Dr Lydia Medland explores in this guest blog the implications of a radically different demographic working on UK farms post-Brexit. This blog was originally published on the Migration Mobilities Bristol website.
“She could not bear the stress and fainted”: Seasonal Work on UK Farms
Over the past eighteen months, FLEX have been working with Rosmini Centre Wisbech, Citizen Advice South Lincolnshire, and the Southeast and East Asian Centre (SEEAC) to conduct surveys and interviews with actors along the food supply chain. Jacob Bolton from FLEX relates how the research found deep-seated, systemic issues on UK farms, with evidence of several indicators of forced labour – including deception, isolation, withholding of wages, intimidation and threats