{"id":658229,"date":"2022-05-17T13:04:20","date_gmt":"2022-05-17T13:04:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global\/2022\/may\/17\/migrant-workers-exploited-and-beaten-on-uk-fishing-boats"},"modified":"2022-05-17T13:04:20","modified_gmt":"2022-05-17T13:04:20","slug":"migrant-workers-exploited-and-beaten-on-uk-fishing-boats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2022\/05\/17\/migrant-workers-exploited-and-beaten-on-uk-fishing-boats\/","title":{"rendered":"Migrant workers \u2018exploited and beaten\u2019 on UK fishing boats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Report tells of 20-hour shifts for \u00a33.50 an hour, racism and sexual abuse under cover of transit visa loophole<\/p><p>A third of migrant workers on UK fishing vessels work 20-hour shifts, and 35% report regular physical violence, according to new research that concludes there is rampant exploitation and abuse on British ships.<\/p><p>\u201cLeaving is not possible because I\u2019m not allowed off the vessel to ask for help,\u201d one migrant worker told researchers at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nottingham.ac.uk\/research\/beacons-of-excellence\/rights-lab\/index.aspx\">University of Nottingham Rights Lab<\/a>, which focuses on modern slavery. They found fishers reported working excessive hours, with few breaks, on an average salary of \u00a33.51 an hour.<\/p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global\/2022\/may\/17\/migrant-workers-exploited-and-beaten-on-uk-fishing-boats\">Continue reading...<\/a>\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global\/2022\/may\/17\/migrant-workers-exploited-and-beaten-on-uk-fishing-boats\">Human rights | The Guardian<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Report tells of 20-hour shifts for \u00a33.50 an hour, racism and sexual abuse under cover of transit visa loopholeA third of migrant workers on UK fishing vessels work 20-hour shifts, and 35% report regular physical violence, according to new research that&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2519,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[923,829,393,4333,11691,401,15494,1333,6,640,10578,2936,1499],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658229"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2519"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=658229"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658229\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":658719,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658229\/revisions\/658719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=658229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=658229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=658229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}