L'assimilazionismo e i lavoratori immigrati nell'agricoltura italiana. La comunità punjabi in provincia di Latina

Abstract

This essay focuses on the migrant’s labour in particular in the Italian agriculture field’s. The essay began with a brief comparative analysis between the theory of assimilation and the structuralist. Then analyzes the relationship among migrants and the Italian labor market from some statistical data related to their presence in the European and national levels and their occupational distribution. Moreover it analyzes the segmentation of the Italian labor market and its niches occupations characterized by activities generally poorly paid, dangerous and unattractive to local workers. For this reason, these are often occupied by migrants workers who are serving, particularly exploitative working conditions and social segregation, in addition to lower wages than Italian workers. This is particularly evident in agriculture, but also strategic sector with a high rate of illegal labor and exploitation, particularly for migrants, who are segregated in laborers in the long term without informing social growth, equal pay and improvement of their condition, contradicts one of the fundamental assumptions of assimilation. As a case study we will analyze the case of resident Punjabi community in the province of Latina, occupied mainly as agricultural laborers, forced to live in conditions of particular labor exploitation and social segregation on the basis of a criminal system Punjabi-Pontine including international trafficking and exploitation.