Global care-commodity chains: Labour re/production and agribusiness in the district of Foggia, southeastern Italy

Peano, Irene

doi:10.3280/sl2017-146002

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“…A study conducted for the European Parliament’s Committee on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality outlines how women living in such settlements in Italy are subject to sexual exploitation [ 13 ]. Irene Peano, an anthropologist who has studied gender and migrant agricultural workers in Italy for 15 years, explains that “different forms of sexual-labour extraction have developed in relation to contemporary agro-industrial production in the Italian context along ethnicised/racialised patterns of labour composition” [ 14 ]. The preponderance of sex work, and the fact that reproductive health is notoriously hard to access in Italy, may explain the high numbers of women seeking care for gynecological and reproductive health issues [ 15 ].…”

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Agricultural Migrants’ Health and Ability to Access Care: A Case Study in Southern Italy

Lamberti-Castronuovo

Pine²,

Brogiato³

et al. 2021

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Although a large amount of research exists about migration into the European Union (EU) and the role of migrants in European society, relatively little information is available on the health status of migrants after arriving in the EU. This is particularly true in the case of the most marginalised migrants, migrants from sub-Saharan Africa, who work as itinerant laborers harvesting fruits and vegetables in southern Italy. This study analyzes demographic and health data gathered by a non-governmental organization-run primary healthcare clinic in order to understand the challenges these migrants face when trying to maintain their health. Results show that their health suffers greatly due to substandard living and working conditions, partially due to the fact that these individuals experience many barriers when trying to access care from the national health system. The health status of this population cannot improve without broad reforms to the welfare system and the agricultural sector. Government action is needed to ensure that such individuals are not denied their basic human rights and freedoms, including the right to health.

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Agricultural Migrants’ Health and Ability to Access Care: A Case Study in Southern Italy

Lamberti-Castronuovo

Pine²,

Brogiato³

et al. 2021

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“…In this strand of research, anti-migrant and anti-refugee policies are interpreted as operations of capital insofar as they create hyperprecarious conditions (Lewis et al., 2015) for migrants. Scholars have shown this labour exploitation of illegalised migrants across different job sectors, such as agriculture (Peano, 2017), construction (Hanieh, 2010), logistics (Cuppini et al., 2015) and care (May et al., 2007).…”

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Value extraction through refugee carcerality: Data, labour and financialised accommodation

Martin

Tazzioli

2023

Environ Plan D

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In this article, we argue that modes of labour and value extraction have been under-researched and under-theorised in critical geographical research on migration, asylum and refugee humanitarianism. We examine data production, voluntary work programmes and financialised asylum housing as key sites through which value is extracted from asylum-seekers’ unpaid and reproductive activities. We argue that specific forms of migrant carcerality are, firstly, grounded in migrants’ and asylum-seekers’ carceral conditions and exclusion from paid work. Secondly, we argue that subtle forms of coercion and conditionality at work in asylum hosting require asylum-seekers’ invisible and unpaid labour. Thirdly, we show how financialised real estate firms further capitalise on government contracts for asylum housing, rendering accommodation as another site of value extraction. We thereby expand conceptualisations of carceral economies of migration control beyond detention and confinement and elaborate the specific forms of labour and value extraction emerging from migration, asylum and refugee governance.

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“…These zones compress the aspirations of a better life with the freedom of corporate players to cheapen labour almost at will. As Irene Peano (2016Peano ( , 2017aPeano ( , 2017b has exhaustively documented, the fraught crossings of the Mediterranean and the intricate apparatuses of capture are applied once African migrants' lands are converted into a lucrative business. Entire small cities take shape in abandoned military bases, warehouses or factories surrounding tomato fields, replete with cheap services of all kinds to a transient population subject to constant racial abuse.…”

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To extend: Temporariness in a world of itineraries

Simone

2020

Urban Studies

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Recent urban analysis has emphasised the ‘big moves’ – planetary scales, extensive processes, major actors, mega-developments and substantial financial flows – important in accounting for a seemingly all-encompassing urbanisation. Still, significant volumes of the urban environment have historically been shaped by the collaborative efforts of residents and their associative institutions. These were collaborations largely operating without formal contracts or consensus, piecing together concrete places capable of holding different practices and sentiments and, as such, rarely became sedentary, even if conditions and power relations might have appeared fixed. These forms included and exceeded clear demarcations of entities (individual, household, social), with, for example, the operations of the digital media increasingly beyond the apprehension of human cognition, making it increasingly unclear ‘who is the what that does something to whom.’ As a result, the terms and economies of such collaborations amongst residents – their acts of autoconstruction – have become more complex and precarious, particularly as residents emphasise the importance of mobility, flexible commitments and individual aspirations. Hence, urban environments are elaborated in ways not captivated by plans, measures or even advanced computational analyses, and there are many ways that residents continue to operate in concert but without discernible mobilisation or organisation. Focusing on temporariness – not as a specific sector or set of practices but as a constellation of efforts to generate something of value – and drawing upon fieldwork across different sites in Indonesia, this lecture explores the new terrain of urban invention by poor, working and lower middle-class residents in the wake of its purported demise.

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Global care-commodity chains: Labour re/production and agribusiness in the district of Foggia, southeastern Italy

Cited by 29 publications

References 3 publications

Agricultural Migrants’ Health and Ability to Access Care: A Case Study in Southern Italy

Agricultural Migrants’ Health and Ability to Access Care: A Case Study in Southern Italy

Value extraction through refugee carcerality: Data, labour and financialised accommodation

To extend: Temporariness in a world of itineraries

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