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Those who are conscripted into the programmes are compelled to transfer to work in farms and factories across the Uighur region, as well as into the interior of China. For those who do not come directly from the internment camps, the Government required that at least one person from every household in southern Xinjiang accept a state-mandated labour transfer to a factory or farm. And in December 2021, government directives required that all people who were able to work must be in some form of work. The PRC claims that these labour transfer programmes are part of a national campaign for poverty alleviation. However, the programmes involving Uighurs and other minority citizens operate differently from other poverty-alleviation programmes throughout China, because the constant threat of internment makes refusing the state-sponsored work placement impossible for individuals from the Uighur region.