2019/08/01 by Fabio Perocco · 11 citations
Economics, Econometrics and Finance · #Art #Art history #Diverse academic and cultural studies #Humanities
paper · pdf · doi:10.1590/1980-85852503880005615
published in REMHU Revista Interdisciplinar da Mobilidade Humana 27(56), 253-255 (Centro Scalabriniano de Estudos Migratórios)
openalex publication_date 2019/08/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/02
The book "Caporalato. An authentic agromafia" by Fiammetta Fanizza and Marco Omizzolo analyses the presence and rooting of organized crime within Italian agriculture, especially in some regions of Southern Italy, supporting a very interesting thesis: caporalato is not a mere practice of illegal intermediation of workforce, but rather a fully-fledged system which is the core of the activity of organized crime in the field of agriculture and lies on harsh life and work conditions imposed on immigrant farm labourers. A method of individual exploitation and social subjugation of local economies, the caporalato is the beating heart of agromafia, it is an agromafia, thus any debate or action which does not consider such feature will fail.