LO SFRUTTAMENTO DEL LAVORO IN AGRICOLTURA

THIS PAPER AIMS TO HIGHTLIGHT THAT THE EXPLOITATION OF LABOUR IS QUITE WIDESPREAD IN ITALY’S AGRICULTURAL SECTOR. THIS PHENOMENON REGARDS IN PARTICULAR THE INCOMING MIGRANTS WHO FREQUENTLY END UP CAPTURED IN A SORT OF SLAVERY. ACTUALLY, THIS NEW FORM OF SLAVERY IS DIFFERENT FROM THOSE OF THE PAST, BUT, IN SAME RESPECTS IT IS EVEN WORSE. MOST OF THE MIGRANTS COME FROM OUTSIDE THE EU WHILE OTHERS COME FROM THE NEW EU MEMBER STATES OF CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE, ESPECIALLY FROM BULGARIA, POLAND AND ROMANIA. TO BETTER DESCRIBE THE PHENOMENON, THE PAPER FEATURES A BRIEF HISTORICAL EXCURSUS ON THE CENSURABLE PRACTICE OF SLAVERY, DENYING THE LIBERTY OF HUMAN BEINGS. OUR BACKGROUND WORK HAS LARGELY BENEFITED OF THE MANY REPORTS PUBLISHED BY SEVERAL PUBLIC AND PRIVATE INSTITUTIONS SUCH AS CARITAS/MIGRANTES, THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION, THE NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR AGRARIAN ECONOMICS (ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI ECONOMIA AGRARIA; INEA), MEDICINS SANS FRONTIERES AND ITALY’S MINISTRY OF INTERNAL AFFAIRS.