Surf & Turf: a seafood justice podcast - Shannon Guillot-Wright, providing direct services to fishermen and seafood processing workers in the Gulf of Mexico

Shannon Guillot-Wright, providing direct services to fishermen and seafood processing workers in the Gulf of Mexico

03/29/24 • 28 min

Shannon Guillot-Wright, PhD, is working to directly address medical, immigration, and social needs for fishermen and seafood processing workers in precarious, dangerous, and vulnerable jobs at the Texas-Louisiana border.
Follow Shannon's lab at UTHealth on Instagram @PEOPLE_Centered

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Amal Bouhabib, racial and migrant justice on catfish farms

Amal Bouhabib is the Director of Southern Migrant Legal Services and defender of the Black catfish farmworkers who were paid less than white migrant workers from South Africa doing the same work. Amal is usually defending migrant workers, who also face abuse in this system. We discuss this case and the complexities of labor and immigration laws that lead to vulnerabilities for American and migrant workers alike in our seafood system.
Follow Amal and Southern Migrant Legal Services at:

Texas Rio Grande Legal Aid (TRLA) website: https://www.trla.org/
TRLA Instagram: @texasriograndelegalaid

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Sari Heidenreich, forced labor in imported seafood

Sari Heidenrich joins guest host Liliana Sierra Castillo to talk about forced labor in seafood. Forced labor is sadly a reality for many people working in imported seafood supply chains. Sari (Greenpeace USA) discusses the conditions that have created and perpetuated this problem, the challenges workers face, and some possible pathways toward solutions. This conversation highlights the importance of knowing who caught our seafood to make ethical choices that nourish our bodies and those of everyone laboring in the seafood system.