Melossi E. (2021). 'Ghetto tomatoes' and 'taxi drivers': the exploitation and control of Sub-Saharan African migrant tomato pickers in Puglia, Southern Italy. Journal of rural studies, 01/12/2021, vol. 88, p. 491-499.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrurstud.2021.04.009
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrurstud.2021.04.009
Titre : | 'Ghetto tomatoes' and 'taxi drivers': the exploitation and control of Sub-Saharan African migrant tomato pickers in Puglia, Southern Italy (2021) |
Auteurs : | E. Melossi |
Type de document : | Article |
Dans : | Journal of rural studies (vol. 88, December 2021) |
Article en page(s) : | p. 491-499 |
Langues : | Anglais |
Langues du résumé : | Anglais |
Catégories : |
Catégories principales 06 - AGRICULTURE. FORÊTS. PÊCHES ; 6.1 - Généralités. Situation AgricoleThésaurus IAMM AGRICULTURE ; EMPLOI ; EMPLOI AGRICOLE ; MIGRANT ; MAIN D'OEUVRE MIGRANTE ; TOMATE ; ITALIE |
Résumé : | This study focuses on the exploitation and control of Sub-Saharan migrants who pick tomatoes in the Capitanata area in the South Italian region of Puglia. Large-scale organised distribution puts pressure on the growers to seek cheap agricultural labour, which is currently largely provided by migrants. The historical phenomenon of the caporalato labour contracting system is still widely practised and impacts in particular the Sub-Saharan migrants. Through the application of the concept of differential inclusion, the study focuses on the subordinate layering processes to which the Sub-Saharan migrants are subjected: racialisation, 'refugeeisation', criminalisation, deportability and invisibility. The ethnographic case study of the 'taxi-driver' sheds light on the difficulty in identifying caporali who have traditionally been blamed for a system that exploits labourers while instead protecting the owners. Recent anti-caporalato laws have been ineffective in contributing to the creation of a more just labour system and have only served to increase the pressure on the Sub-Saharan migrants for whom work is synonymous with survival. |
Cote : | Réservé lecteur CIHEAM |
URL / DOI : | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrurstud.2021.04.009 |