Name: Clandestine employment of Indians in Italy | DW Documentary (Migrant documentary)
Uploaded: 2020-03-10T07:01:06.000Z
Duration: 12 min 2 s
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These workers get just a few euros an hour to pick radishes and George it's Jackson is one of tens of thousands.

It makes business sense for the companies.

The agricultural industry is Italy's second largest export sector.

Fruit and vegetables produced in Latina are sold all over Europe, but the organized crime and human trafficking at play here stretches all the way to India.

Jack treats Singh arrived in Italy 12 years ago.

Friends of his in his village in Punjab, in northern India, had told him about Latina.

They told him he could work in the fields and earn good money.

He knew that life would be difficult, but not this difficult.

At first, he often thought about going back.

When I was alone at the beginning, I had to make my own breakfast and lunch and also clean when I came home from work.

Now that my family's here, it's all much easier.

Asano that the family it was difficult for me to be alone for so many years.

My son was so small he wasn't even one year old when judge eat left.

Life was difficult when we had to travel even easy household things.

About 18,000 Indians work in the province of Latina.

From punch up Jack Treat needed years before he could buy his own car, find a small house to rent and save enough money to bring his family over.

He's one of the few who was willing to talk with us openly about the work.

I could arrive late for work, go home earlier if I needed to do something.

But but still I'm better off than the others.

Plums have grown here, but they won't let us in with the camera.

Go Game Three owners are feet long with a statement given.

Companies usually don't even pay 1/3 of the official minimum wage.

Many of the men work seven days a week up to 12 or 13 hours a day during harvest time.

But these Indians are trapped in a criminal system.

Most paid thousands of euros to human traffickers to get to Italy on fake papers.

It could be years before they're able to pay off their debts if it'll this debt Bondage is widespread in Italy, and not only Indians are exploited East Europeans and Africans, too.

Middlemen behind the scenes recruit the workers.

They keep a cut of their wages, and they also dictate the working hours, all of which is illegal.

We're making a program about the Indian community.

Most companies here are part of the system.

A police unit has been set up to fight against illegal employment.

Well, in a lot of just Emma, it's certainly a system of organized crime and illegal immigration finale that only military understand, because he was mainly Indians who work with Italians to bring people over and to get them Fake papers, residence permits, fake visas, passports.

Everything went at it in the woman develop, even a message.

Look how well this driving license has been faked Fault, sir, but it's simply perfect and the fissure off that all, Um, it's difficult to break this system, but there's always somebody willing to testify.

Sometimes workers talk because they're scared of being deported to India.

There are many reasons if a talented, efficient, reliable, especially.

They're also part of the community, and they're scared of cooperating with the police, denouncing people and helping us to arrest other Indians.

One of the biggest producers of radishes in Europe allowed us to film.

Over there, we were able to speak to one of the managers and ask him about recruiters and exploitation.

No way, it's against our company philosophy.

If we were to find such a case, we would fire the person immediately.

We're not a company that doesn't treat its workers well.

No trouble benefit So even then, activists say that the people here are also not paid the minimum wage that they're also recruiters operating here.

The workers themselves refused to say anything.

They're scared of losing their jobs in the evening.

The men have been living here for years, but they're still serving up to bring their wives over.

I had to pawn my wife and sisters gold jewelry to pay for the trip to Italy.

I thought that I'd earned some money fast and get it back.

But in the end we had to sell the jewelry to pay off our debts.

Almost everyone who comes here has the same problem with reality is different from the expectations.

During that time, he hasn't gone home once.

I'm neither happy nor unhappy about the working conditions.

The problem is that it's tough on the back and it always aches.

It was 40 but nobody wants to go back to India.

The money that they earn here is needed there.

The beginning when I first arrived, I live near the beach.