The Migrant Worker's Guide

Welcome to the Migrant Worker's Guide. Working in the UK as a migrant can come with many challenges, from legal issues and language barriers, to healthcare costs and heightened risk of exploitation. This page is a starting point to help you find all the information and services you need as a migrant living and working in London.

Know Your Rights

Migrants' Rights Network created this guide for all migrants living in the UK, including those without documents, and those trying to regularise their immigration status. It explains what your rights are, how changes in the law may affect you, and where you can go for support and advice.

The guide covers issues such as banking, housing, employment, exploitation and healthcare, and is available in a wide range of languages. Read the guide here. Choose your language in the top left hand corner.

Understand Your Employment Status

Visit this page on the Mayor of London's website to understand your employment status, and which employment rights you are entitled to.

Get Support in your Local Area

Migrants Rights Network have also produced Local London Guides, so that you can see the migrant support services available in the area you live in. If your borough isn’t listed, use the London services map below instead.

Find Services Across London

This map, from the Greater London Assembly, shows services all over London that are free to migrants and refugees. You can filter it for the service type you need, including immigration advice, health and housing.

Join Other Migrant Workers Taking Action

The IWGB is a trade union for migrant workers. We take action together to demand better pay and conditions at work.

Sign up to meet other workers like you, and learn how you can win fairer wages, sick pay, holiday pay, and improvements to your conditions like working hours, safety measures and workplace provisions.

Find out more about the IWGB here.

Join the IWGB here.