Ciao Ousmane : the hidden exploitation of Italy's migrant workers
Pai, Hsiao-Hung2021
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In 2013 Ousmane Diallo, a 26-year-old Senegalese olive harvester, lost his life when a gas canister exploded in a Sicilian field. As an African migrant, he was little mourned. But though they've been deliberately forgotten, neither the events of Ousmane's life nor his tragic death are uncommon. Across Italy today, African workers toil in the fields that make it one of Europe's largest exporters of fruit and veg. Having fled home countries devastated by colonialism and global capitalism, those who survive the journey across the Mediterranean arrive on European shores only to find themselves systematically segregated and exploited. They have been subject to anti-migrant policies over decades. Trapped in a chokehold of subhuman living and working conditions, they are the dehumanised Other. This is the story of this subordinated class.
Main title:
Ciao Ousmane : the hidden exploitation of Italy's migrant workers / Hsiao-Hung Pai.
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Imprint:
London : Hurst & Company, 2021.London : Hurst & Company, 2021.
Collation:
336 pages ; 22 cm
Audience:
Specialized.
ISBN:
9781787384699 (hbk)
Dewey class:
331.544
Language:
English
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BRN:
2457014