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Ciao Ousmane : the hidden exploitation of Italy's migrant workers

Title
Ciao Ousmane : the hidden exploitation of Italy's migrant workers / Hsiao-Hung Pai.
Author
Pai, Hsiao-Hung
Publication
London : Hurst & Company, 2021.

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Description
xxv, 286 pages : map; 22 cm
Summary
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 vegetables. 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, from administrations across the political spectrum. Trapped in a chokehold of subhuman living and working conditions, they are the dehumanised Other, invisible by design--the people hidden behind foods and goods branded 'Made in Italy'. Ciao Ousmane is the story of this subordinated class. Through the lives and stories of Italy's migrant workers, Hsiao-Hung Pai exposes the open secret of how state and society create 'necessary outcasts'. This is a bitter, frank and moving tale of racial capitalism, against which workers constantly find new ways to organise and fight back. --
Subject
  • Diallo, Ousmane
  • Foreign workers, African > Italy
  • Foreign workers, African > Italy > Social conditions
  • Emigration and immigration > Economic aspects
  • Foreign workers, African
  • Italy > Emigration and immigration > Economic aspects
  • Italy
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Call Number
Sc D 22-334
ISBN
  • 1787384691
  • 9781787384699
LCCN
2020478092
OCLC
1197844547
Author
Pai, Hsiao-Hung, author.
Title
Ciao Ousmane : the hidden exploitation of Italy's migrant workers / Hsiao-Hung Pai.
Publisher
London : Hurst & Company, 2021.
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references.
Research Call Number
Sc D 22-334
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