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The Financial Times Weekend published an article聽entitled聽, featuring an interview with 聽Professor Virginia Mantouvalou聽(Professor of Human Rights and Labour Law at聽果冻影院 Laws). The article discusses the plight of migrant domestic workers who arrive in the UK under an Overseas Domestic Worker visa. This visa effectively ties workers to the employer with whom they arrived,聽giving them the right to change employer in extremely limited occasions. In this way, it聽makes workers vulnerable to ongoing cycles of exploitation and abuse. The FT magazine article exposes stories of ill-treated workers in London鈥檚 wealthiest neighbourhoods.

Professor聽Mantouvalou聽has published extensively on this issue and is also a Trustee of the NGO聽, working on the rights of migrant domestic workers in the UK. She was interviewed by Robert Wright, Financial Times Social Affairs Correspondent, and worked with him while he developed his piece.

In the聽FT聽article, Professor聽Mantouvalou聽explains the problems created by the visa, the vulnerability of these workers, and the role of the law in creating this situation. She says that the visa scheme 鈥�"makes you feel suspicious about how committed the government are to tackling modern slavery.鈥� And she further explains:鈥�鈥淥f course, there are terrible individual employers who take advantage of workers. But there are structures, including legal structures, that make workers vulnerable to exploitation. So why not change those as well?鈥�

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• 痴颈谤驳颈苍颈补听惭补苍迟辞耻惫补濒辞耻,听聽in Philosophical Foundations of Labour Law, Collins,聽Mantouvalou, Lester (eds), OUP, 2018
• 痴颈谤驳颈苍颈补听惭补苍迟辞耻惫补濒辞耻,听聽(2018)聽81 Modern Law Review 1017聽