<i>Clandestini</i>in the Orange Towns: Migrations and Racisms in Calabria's Agriculture

Corrado, Alessandra

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“…The third type of conflict is of an "ethnic" nature. The most notorious example of this was the January 2010 "Rosarno revolt" in Calabria (Corrado 2011). In some areas of southern Italy, migrants are victims of racially motivated intimidation and violence.…”

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Agricultural Day Laborers in Southern Italy: Forms of Mobility and Resistance

Perrotta¹

2015

South Atlantic Quarterly

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This article analyzes migrant agricultural labor in southern Italy, focusing on migrants from Burkina Faso and Romania laboring in the regions of Puglia and Basilicata. The argument underlines the connections between mobility, willingness to work for low wages, and conflict in the workplace. The essay investigates, firstly, why migrants are willing to work for lower wages than established in collective agreements. Migrants’ deportability explains the situation to some extent, but it does not answer the question completely; EU citizens (such as Romanians) who are not deportable also settle for lower salaries. Other factors include competition within the job market between day laborers from different countries and with different legal statuses, the segregation of seasonal workers from the local population, and the impact of the caporalato (gang-master) system, an illegal form of mediation and labor organization. The essay analyzes, secondly, the conflicts instigated by the day laborers, from clashes in the workplace to larger-scale mobilizations, including the biggest strike ever organized by foreign day laborers in Italy, which took place in Nardò in 2011; in this instance, breaking the migrants’ segregation was a key factor. Paradoxically, Romanians, who enjoy greater freedom of movement, seem less willing to engage in clashes in the workplace than Burkinabés (natives of Burkina Faso), despite the latter’s more precarious legal position. The research for this article was conducted between 2010 and 2013, both through interviews with day laborers, labor contractors, agricultural business owners, and expert witnesses and through an ethnographic study of migrant accommodations.

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Agricultural Day Laborers in Southern Italy: Forms of Mobility and Resistance

Perrotta¹

2015

South Atlantic Quarterly

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“…Caporali are social and political figures mediating between farm workers looking for a job, and employers looking for cheap and disciplined workers (Corrado 2011; Avallone 2014). These workers are often are under pressure due to restrictive migration laws and the weakness of public employment services.…”

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“…Caporali are social and political figures mediating between farm workers looking for a job, and employers looking for for cheap and disciplined workers (see Corrado, 2011;Avallone, 2014).…”

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Parea non servin:strategies of exploitation and resistance in the caporalato discourse

Poppi

Travaglino

2018

Mod. Italy

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In this article, we analyse the ideological content of the discursive strategies used by a group of migrant workers subjected to ‘caporalato’, a form of illegal hiring and exploitation of farm day workers through an intermediary. Starting from a series of collective open interviews with farm workers, we examine the way in which the dynamics of both exploitation and resistance are reproduced through linguistic and discursive practices. What emerges from the analysis is a complex set of ambivalent experiences and representations. Despite its inherent exploitative and controlling nature, the workers tend to justify, legitimise and deny the negative aspects of caporalato. Nonetheless, they also use linguistic devices of resistance to reconfigure the meanings of, and their role in, caporalato. Interestingly, the analyses show that caporalato is also perceived as a mechanism of social mobility. Only limited attempts at explicitly challenging its criminal nature are strategically expressed.

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“…In Rosarno an emergency scenario became evident in January 2010, in coincidence with protests by African workers, first, and the local population, after, in a complex situation that is too complex to synthesize in this article(for details see Corrado, ; Garrapa, ; Pugliese, ). These events hit the headlines and made the dramatic situation of migrant workers – particularly Sub‐Saharan – evident to national/ international public opinion.…”

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“…The forms of intermediation can be: informal and prosecutable (Brigate di Solidarietà Attiva et al. ), legal (co‐operatives in Italy: Corrado ), operated by licensed gang‐masters (in the UK: Rogaly, ); they can be even included in the pay scale tables of local collective wage agreements ( capataz in Valencia). Migration policy can contribute to related dynamics of exploitation and social segregation (Portes and Sensenbrenner, ).…”

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Governing agricultural migrant workers as an “emergency”: converging approaches in Northern and Southern Italian rural towns

Semprebon

Marzorati

Garrapa

2017

International Migration

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Rosarno and Sermide are two small towns in Southern and Northern Italy, which are both part of a manual‐labour circuit of agricultural work. The article presents an analysis of governance structures in these towns and, by bringing together the literature on migrants' agricultural labour and local policy‐making, explores how public actors address migrant seasonal agricultural workers' needs to investigate outcomes of inclusion and exclusion. The article builds on qualitative research, conducted between 2012 and 2015, to propose a North‐South intra‐country comparison of local policy‐making. The findings show the emergency nature of local administrations' approaches and the critical role of civil society. They highlight the extent to which responses diverge or converge in means and scale, while stressing their convergence in scope to limit migrants' visibility.

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Clandestiniin the Orange Towns: Migrations and Racisms in Calabria's Agriculture

Cited by 24 publications

References 2 publications

Agricultural Day Laborers in Southern Italy: Forms of Mobility and Resistance

Agricultural Day Laborers in Southern Italy: Forms of Mobility and Resistance

Parea non servin:strategies of exploitation and resistance in the caporalato discourse

Governing agricultural migrant workers as an “emergency”: converging approaches in Northern and Southern Italian rural towns

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