Mantouvalou, Virginia;
(2022)
The UK Seasonal Worker Visa.
European Law Open
, 1
(3)
pp. 711-719.
10.1017/elo.2022.39.
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Abstract
This article discusses the United Kingdom (UK) 2019 Seasonal Worker Visa, which was adopted to address labour shortages in horticulture. It explains the challenges faced by workers in agriculture more broadly, and the particular issues raised by seasonal visas. It argues that the UK scheme contains significant restrictions on workers’ rights. The article situates this scheme in a framework of ‘state-mediated structures of injustice’, namely instances where legal rules with an appearance of legitimacy create or increase vulnerability and are connected to widespread structures of exploitation. This theoretical framework focuses on the role and responsibility of the state for workers’ exploitation. The authorities have political responsibility to change these rules, and may also have legal responsibility to do so under human rights law.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | The UK Seasonal Worker Visa |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1017/elo.2022.39 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1017/elo.2022.39 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © The Author(s), 2022. Published by Cambridge University Press. This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted re-use, distribution and reproduction, provided the original article is properly cited. |
| Keywords: | labour law, immigration law, UK Seasonal Worker Visa, agriculture, exploitation |
| UCL classification: | UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of Laws UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH UCL |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10156874 |
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