The New Yorkerのインスタグラム(newyorkermag) - 10月10日 22時00分

More than half the population of Xinjiang, a landlocked region in northwestern China, is made up of minorities, most of them Uyghur. The government has placed millions of Uyghurs in “reëducation” camps and detention facilities, where they have been subjected to torture, beatings, and forced sterilization. The U.S. government has described the country’s actions in Xinjiang as a form of genocide, and in 2021, Congress passed the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act, which declared that all goods produced “wholly or in part” by workers in Xinjiang or by ethnic minorities from the region should be presumed to have involved state-imposed forced labor, and are therefore banned from entering the U.S. The law had a major impact, resulting in the detention of more than a billion dollars’ worth of goods—but, until now, the seafood industry has largely escaped notice.

Under a vast labor-transfer program, the Chinese state forcibly sends Uyghurs to work in industries across the country, including processing seafood. @ian_urbina found that at least 10 large seafood companies in China have used more than 1,000 Uyghur workers since 2018. During that time, those companies shipped more than 47,000 tons of seafood—including cod, pollock, shrimp, salmon, and crab—to the U.S. At the link in our bio, read about the system of forced Uyghur labor behind the fish that much of the world eats. Video from Kashgar Integrated Media Center.

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