after people in power the 21st century began with extraordinary economic growth across much of latin america. but since this halted in 2008 there's been a political shift to the right on a continent where socialism on strive to. achieve land politician goes on a journey to me leading leftwing ficus to understand why that politics have lost ground so dramatically. latin america a giant in time oil on al-jazeera. for decades thousands of sikhs from north india have migrated to italy to work in the country's agriculture industry the hope is to provide a better life for the families they've left behind but though their labor is vital

to italy's food production many get caught in a cycle of exploitation of the produce from which those little the sky we've been to investigate. the vast agricultural plains of the i grew up and pima in central italy are one of the country's main areas of food production. but many of those who live here aren't italians they're indians. at least $11000.00 of them and possibly up to 4 times more. mostly sikhs from punjab in northern india they are economic migrants who've come here to work in local farms and send money.

but all too often those dreams are crushed instead they can face abuse and exploitation laboring for pitiful wages and trapped in a system from which there is no escape. we've come to hear their story. made of friends more than the law going to the border illegally b.s.e. means a lump all it doesn't come punches for longer than the. 1000000 are there the number that about to get even those on the net. income obtained that i wouldn't. have done more but i'm not. going to become a nanny and lost almost all of them even if you get away. with the number the wrong

but i will never be but a nominal number that i'm never going to live to back them got me. this 100 mile long stretch of land facing the terrain and sea was marshlands until a century ago when fascist dictator benito mussolini organized the mass migration from. northern italy to drain the swamps and turn them into for. good luck the enthusiasm i've had a lot of. it's only when they've been on. the chair almost all aboard don't. lay. person you are going to give you my ship. i don't know what to do with strongly any federal needs be. done on that

one only then build that by the. vision of a poet a gentle your lover a few novelists that imo. there are going to have you saw your lord oh. don't worry i work on till monday. and i moved to. stalin and from. there my mom and i met. the woman john. a century later things have improved for the italians at least. the original settlers have long gone and the migrant workers have moved in. you mean you get tyranny and wind gusts he. only needs you and i'm going to. places like. the cluster of terrorist row houses originally built for vacationers

are now inhabited almost exclusively by farm laborers. that. have gone to the punjab even on the uneven integrity were any value. on an. only postino they put them on i 70 someone up and down that i don't know if you do fashion. each year the article tino produces roughly 5 percent of italy's total export of agricultural products. a fair share of the fruits and vegetables that grow here find their way to italy's largest wholesale agricultural market in the nearby town of phone the. sooner the g. . e. coli story not.

only be a little a lot. it's a lucrative industry but not for the migrant workers on whose labor it relies. on it to. put on it we don't need it in the. second but i'm going on about the budget in the region and again by the beagle i'm with exactly what in the. sun would you take the money would just fall on the kind of shot you will that he's seeking but is it in does he need to be in a panic in the sea and doesn't. want to see a book in my local company got to get on to the job and decide which of them and let me define them and. you don't can only hold a body of arsenal so to be a c. if you mean that i believe. they're going to get a. good order to be at the moment.

of you without a good deal with what you deal with article of your board your mother mondegreen on that is. inadequate and poorly in forced labor regulations allow farm owners to pay migrant workers well below industry minimums in italy usually set at $9.00 euros an hour. leave a. trace and it would be blowed you straight know what i would be me who are. illegal. who we know here and everything we go. people leaving that's your gnarly gnome being gone all the. i think oh yeah and if. nobody said a little. recent police operations in the our group and tino have specifically targeted business owners who exploit their farm workers through trusted indian

acolytes known as capital for gangmasters. because if you look up what i did you go . oh. i thought in. your mind the level of the end up but then nobody i mean. but the police can only do so much and against this background with such big profits at stake the i grew up on tino has become a magnet to businesses both local and international here at the moment are saying you know the lunacy. of the law. and i you. know madam i mean it. is a dutch own company that's been producing vegetables in italy for over 2 decades.

our interviewee wished to remain anonymous but he worked for the company for 4 years then he decided to sue them for alleged workplace violations and learned. by anybody and i don't believe that i mean they simply made the. can you give us some of the years she should have you know. the ram but if. you read my going to dominic. i don't even know. you know it all about the. money but any. money at the last even a couple of things you know. but i think. it could be a stop to working for or to london in 2016. so we asked

a current employee about conditions now. good amanita no. need to do anything dado not going to. lie to me. i was. to take in sa not going in there i want to. in fact a total of 11 indian workers have now sued or stolen the judgement in their case is pending we asked the company's managing director to respond to the claims we've heard. and that's only because it is imo sonogram doubt that. you have on sci fi going forward others are more called the more but no they don't both the boat on or called. oh yeah.

oh oh oh. oh oh oh. oh oh oh ok if. you're going on your. feet to the west and also. just oh yeah. oh. but the company did confirm it was still employing this man. can be a saint he's an alleged couple or gangmaster was currently on trial for illicit more. force broke free labor exploitation and extortion reported to police by the workers now suing article and he too was reluctant to respond to the claims me made against him all the way. to us. that may be honest.

with you on that score so. martin is at the temple. but i've got an image of my. body. and then we're going to be we're going to believe in you're the to. email. but you can from. the middle. which you can even put but if you put a memory because much of what i need you do not. know. but to your day or the minute are made about a given up on the fate of the new one of the people we will manage a mini. what is certain is that the large numbers of a regular indian migrants in the area feeds

a rich black market for documents. migrant laborers need a contract before they can be issued or renew an italian residence permit but often the contracts have to be bought illegally. also you. will be promoted where you want. to do real. and a contract in itself is often not enough. migrant workers also often struggle to show they've met the minimum income levels that are needed to renew a residence permit this is because their pay slips rarely account for the portion of their salary that is paid off the books. but i am going to become one of them you know look up their number to them a little card will come out of a human will then a book out of them that don't. do the malted out of them on the. we're going to come back up and i've got a couple up i'm going to get we're going to live in

a bit of the body. hit the bottom are going above him and they yell at them that i start to put on them that i'm starting to hit the bottom of them on him and with the. police say the sale of bogus contracts is now so lucrative that organized criminal groups have taken control of the market. i've. maintained and chad i know these are. the needy in. d.c. in that they have an old at least for the 2 and they're not the woman to fall. out when i got older. that he don't you're not you're not it. punch him one up a lot of good only i had. so many jobs when you took iowa that you need money. in money. but then if you are one of those who live at the top of any also just to

be open i got an. attendee cut in the miata board on the a they made. but they would never do be shame in that way to hear the percent again just what they want me to. suddenly say i did on this really m.b.a. to them you know getting it i didn't want to become a dot in one of them is on the news and on they want to get. your. butt in the leg out of the boards or that only on the. another often overlooked aspect of the hardships migrant workers endure is the pressure to meet the high expectations of families back home. the guilt that comes with failing to satisfy those expectations can have tragic

consequences. want to be with him on. the young movie it. would be a millimeter. good there may be that it was you who do joining. me to better board but i won't be poor but i want the love either simple what it is your. all the beauty your. voice the g.n.r. a beauty. and i got to see the image of the him because he. made this was the home of study of all how to deep sing. who hung himself with the cloth. from his turban just days before boarding a flight home to india. he was just one of 13 indian migrants who committed suicide here in recent years. others have resorted to drugs.

made this abandoned green house his home. this was his bed. the leftovers from his last meal and a syringe. tell a story of surrender and desperation. looks rotting body was found amid the nearby tall grass. and death locals as invisible as it was a life. was void of our soul. for no lowered the enbrel fioretti gender the view already knows all. along no god no or. bad slow boredom locals of the judge will it be out of course

thought was illegal in general but in medical care there were no laws they bounce on or memos all of other a moment of yeah niña normal when i've. been all morning going down are good on the salmon or on time you know what phone while in the on when you vandals with your they coca-cola but all but a mere one of it when you have again to a new number thrown out well you know what almost the manty boy was brewed thoughtful and naughty yes shipboard but i want before me i'm not a yes sure but i want to. see will know many who want to read it he want to read it . to lose bob anybody could do what you do. earlier this year as italy went into lockdown in response to the coronavirus pandemic the authorities issued

a decree allowing for paperless agricultural workers to regularize their status for some it would be a chance to end their exploitation for others it would come too late. on saturday june 6 as we were shooting this film we received a call from a contact in the could have been yet. we were told that yet another indian farm worker had taken his life. his name was joe bundy job on he was 25 and had arrived in italy in the center 2019. a coworker told us how he'd found job on the painting the noose around his neck was

his traditional seat turban. with him i want. a word of it he said the king. that. get it going to you know i did what i did. and on another word up and. get on the phone no no no no and then peeking got. any response got up again and probably. i think one. of the. almost. no. problem. but there's something going on that i'm going to

put on if not all. men and women 18 great and. them on their mind again think we're going to put on a. will call me a man down here and can really pull out of me. i. think we did. you know so. deeply in debt. come to italy on a tourist visa had recently expired another of his friends told us they'd spoken just days earlier. and then i think i said you have been thinking. i'll come to you can't i go to that they didn't give it only then i think one of them. and again i think well those are the best anything that i think often and you know nothing to

get into here and i think that a company actually think that. i'm getting out and 'd you never know this already by her name you know will he come to you only you know a couple of ideas monica make up a little. and then you know i can't let you go out of the. paper money to me again turn or text you know anything to pass the time a little or nothing at all you know i do it with you here not over yet if i want to give her any number that was even. easier on me you know. jenny did you know a lot more runs a company and they're going to point to you know that employees over 100 workers. job and deeps friends had told us about one of its indian employees the gang master called jimmy who was allegedly handling the sale of job and keeps papers we spoke to jimmy over the telephone. to me need to be but do you really think somebody

would. get i. don't know that but i. don't. care we don't know maybe. we'd be up but i want to show you look but you know i don't need. we also tried to contact johnny the owner of the company for which job on the job on work he did not respond so we wrote to him asking if he had illegally employed job on the how much money job on the it was owed and whether the company had offered their paperless employees the possibility to access the government's amnesty jenny digital i did not respond. since the amnesty over 15000 illegal agricultural workers have applied for italian residence permits one to

a. friend and then one of them was mild agenda setting whom we met earlier for him at least things seem set to get better for a little comment in that he says and i will make you to forgive me i know this is fundamentally seclusion. but i never know in a whole host of parts of the whole mentee up with the man i cannot i learned. when i had this little sense on the command dissembled you know. that when taken on video i feel on knowing their content there's all over that i really didn't get where he is just a word but not safe from. us. for over a century migrant workers have been exploited in the fertile flat lands of the arguable . just like the italian

migrants that came to stay here before them the indians to seek a fresh start. but unless work regulations are applied and greedy farm owners punished. the weaker and most needy of them may not survive the journey. alaska's far north a pristine environment that's become a battleground with the trumpet ministration king to let oil companies start drilling some in its remote communities are tempted by the promised wealth we live here we may not there but others bitterly opposed we should not have to trade our culture for oil and gas crossing the high peaks of the arctic circle to investigate

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