{"id":44289,"date":"2019-03-27T21:55:43","date_gmt":"2019-03-27T20:55:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/?p=44289"},"modified":"2019-04-02T13:00:50","modified_gmt":"2019-04-02T12:00:50","slug":"stop-the-exploitation-of-migrant-agricultural-workers-in-italy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/2019\/03\/27\/stop-the-exploitation-of-migrant-agricultural-workers-in-italy\/","title":{"rendered":"Stop the exploitation of migrant agricultural workers in Italy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Across the whole of Italy, agriculture counts the fall<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">en like those on a battlefield. P<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">eople from different nationalities come to work in Italy in the agricultural sector<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">[1] They often have similar stories to tell and all face a common fate. They are an exploited working class, often immigrants from poorer countries. Their living conditions are grim. Their deaths are quickly forgotten and often invisible to official statistics. [1] [2]<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">It is March: the weather is cold, and things look more desolate. Yet, as on any day of the year, work in the fields goes on relentlessly, and so does the exploitation of migrant workers: unseen, untold, unstopped. And people die. The death of agricultural low wage workers knows no seasons.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Sacko was shot while looking for corrugated plates to build barracks. Becky died in a fire. Paola died from heat and exhaustion, Marcus from the cold.[1] [3] And many other nameless workers are dead, such as the 12 agricultural workers who died in August in a car accident in Puglia.[4] They were crammed into an old van, not fit for purpose, on their way back from the fields. Over the past six years the number of agricultural workers who have died as a result of their work is more than 1500.[1] This affects immigrants and Italians alike. Some have died in fires in ghettos[5] [6]\u2014one hit by a train while returning from work, others dying from exhaustion or killed by intense manual labour. Others have been killed by &#8220;gangmasters&#8221;\u2014the so called \u201cCaporali,\u201d who are modern slave masters.[7] [8] <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The workers are <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">paid according to the amount of vegetables they collect rather than the time spent at work,<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> or they are paid \u20ac12 for eight hours\u2019 work under the supervision of Caporali, and they live in the \u201cGhetti.\u201d These are shantytowns, isolated from city centers, without water or proper standards of hygiene, sanitation, or health services. Italy has an estimated 50-70 of these settlements, accounting for around 100\u2009000 low wage migrant workers. This is only an estimate, as no official census exists.[2] <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">They work to make it possible for people from London to Shanghai to buy and eat Italian tomatoes at a low cost, any day of the year. But how much do these tomatoes really cost? What is the human cost of these products?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Over the years the presence of the state, the church, non-governmental organisations, and volunteers has been felt, but it has not been enough to bring about meaningful change. If we are to deal with the \u201cAgromafia\u201d phenomenon\u2014the structure of exploitation and the criminal system behind this exploitation\u2014and achieve fair, working hours and salaries for low wage workers, then strong cultural change and collective actions are required. Yvan Sagnet, a former agricultural worker, began a legal process to have the system officially defined as \u201cCaporalato.\u201d The aim was to recognise the existence of a criminal sector exploiting \u00a0agricultural workers with unwritten laws and rules.[9] A specific law was passed, but the exploitation continues.[1]<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Meanwhile, the human dignity of workers and citizens must be preserved, and essential services must be ensured. Are we not pursuing universal health coverage? \u00a0Since 2015, Doctors with Africa CUAMM,[10] in partnership with local institutions, has been providing basic health services to these workers. Every Sunday a mobile outpatient clinic is held in three of the ghettos in Puglia.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Over the past four years many services have been provided, resulting in a total of 4800 outpatient consultations (average 43\/day). Of these, 60% were first consultations, so 2880 patients have been seen. Our data show that the main reasons for the consultations were: fatigue and\/or musculoskeletal conditions (46%); dental problems (19%); respiratory symptoms (10%); dermatological symptoms (8%); obstetric\/gynaecological symptoms (4%); trauma (4%); cardiovascular problems (4%); ophthalmic symptoms (2%); metabolic issues (2%); and psychiatric problems (1%). Almost 80% of the patients required pharmacological treatment, while a complex process was required for the 10% of patients who needed referral to secondary care. However, no clear and definite healthcare pathways are in place to make the health interventions fast and efficient. It is hard to imagine that this situation will improve given current political trends in Italy and \u201cDecreto Sicurezza\u201d<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u2014<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">a new law regulating migration<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u2014<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">and the fact that sees this as a matter of national security only.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In line with the latest evidence, our experience as part of Doctors with Africa CUAMM and global health activists suggests that the health conditions of this population are mainly linked to specific working activities in the agricultural fields, as well as to the hygiene, living conditions, and lack of social protection in their life and job.[11] [12] Therefore, the issue is: how can we tackle the root causes of these avoidable deaths and diseases? How can we end the exploitation that these workers face? \u00a0A response is necessary, and the health sector should voice its concerns and make a stand, although it will not be sufficient without coordinated, intersectoral action. Legal, labour, and health protection of low wage agricultural workers and their families is urgently needed. Health, migration, the economy, sustainable development, and justice are all interlinked facets of our world, and we feel a duty for the science and health community to care and to give a voice to the voiceless.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Each of us is involved not only because we are doctors, citizens, scientists, consumers, or economists. We keep working in the field, guided by the principles of \u201chealth for all,\u201d universal health coverage, and \u201cleaving no one behin<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">d,\u201d enshrined in th<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">e World Development Agenda 2030. \u00a0Yet our work is the work of volunteers, of a society that wants to remain \u201ccivilised\u201d and not just civil. The work of doctors who keep believing that we are meant to fight diseases not people<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u2014<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">and that all of us need to stand up and fight exploitation, discrimination, racism, and egotism, however disguised their forms might be.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><i>Claudia Marotta<\/i><\/b><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, Doctors with Africa CUAMM, Italy; Department of Sciences for Health Promotion and Mother and Child Care, Palermo, Italy<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><b><i>Francesco Di Gennaro<\/i><\/b><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, Doctors with Africa CUAMM, Italy; Department of Infectious Diseases, University of Bari &#8220;Aldo Moro,&#8221; Bari, Italy<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><b><i>Paolo Parente<\/i><\/b><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, Department of Public Health, Universit\u00e0 Cattolica del Sacro Cuore di Roma, Italy<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><b><i>Giovanni Putoto<\/i><\/b><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, MD, DTM&amp;H, MAHMPP, Doctors with Africa CUAMM, Italy<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><b><i>Davide Mosca<\/i><\/b><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, Realizing Health SDGs for Migrants, Displaced, and Communities, Italy. \u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><b><i>Competing interests<\/i><\/b><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">: None declared.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><b>References<\/b><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Mangano A. 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(Accessed February 25, 2019).<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Legislative decree 29 ottobre 2016, n. 199.\u00a0Disposizioni in materia di contrasto ai fenomeni del lavoro nero, dello sfruttamento del lavoro in agricoltura e di riallineamento retributivo nel settore agricolo. (16G00213)\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gazzettaufficiale.it\/eli\/gu\/2016\/11\/03\/257\/sg\/pdf\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">(GU Serie Generale n.257 del 03-11-2016)<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Doctors with Africa CUAMM. <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/doctorswithafrica.org\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/doctorswithafrica.org<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. (Accessed February 25, 2019).<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> World Health Organization (WHO). Report on the health of refugees and migrants in the WHO European Region. No PUBLIC HEALTH without REFUGEE and MIGRANT HEALTH.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Abubakar I, Aldridge RW, Devakumar D, et al. The UCL\u2013Lancet Commission on Migration and Health: the health of a world on the move. Lancet. 2018 Dec 15;392(10164):2606-54.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Across the whole of Italy, agriculture counts the fallen like those on a battlefield. 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