For decades thousands of sikhs from india have migrated to italy to work in the countrys agriculture industry the hope is to provide a better life for the families theyve left behind but though their labor is vital to italys Food Production many get caught in a cycle of exploitation and abuse from which there is little to skate weve been to invest ago. The vast agricultural plains of the i grew up and pima in central italy are one of the countrys main areas of Food Production. But many of those who live here arent italians theyre 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 whove 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. Weve come to hear their story. Made of friends. On the lagoon of the border illegally b. R. C. 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Know have specifically targeted Business Owners who exploit their farm workers through a trusted indian acolytes known as capita for gangmasters. Because if. You go away. I think that. I mean. But the police can only do so much and against this background with such big profits at stake the agapanthus you know has become a magnet to businesses both local and international that there at the moment a saying you know the innocent. And i you. Know madam i mean it. Is a dutch owned company thats been producing vegetables in italy for over 2 decades. It would be at our interview we wish 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 i dont believe yet i mean this simply meant the. Going to be one of the years she initiated you know all of those things in the ram but if. You read my going to dominic. That in his own name and. You know little about the. 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Force broke free labor exploitation and extortion reported to police by the workers now suing the article and he too was reluctant to respond to the claims me made against him all the way. To us. And made. A. Mark on his at the temple. But i got a. 1000000. And im going to love it were going to believe in unity. Emailed me if im on a human. Body can. There midleton a fundamental wish you could give it a bit of me but i mean because much of what i need you do not. Know. But the. Order the minute are made about 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 and cooperated subaltern the. Old model met at the. Bottom of the board so what are. The 3 of them then one. And a contract in itself is often not enough. Migrant workers also often struggle to show theyve met the minimum income levels that are needed to renew a residence permit this is because their pay slips rarely account for the poor. Of their salary that is paid off the books. But i am going to become a variable in the league of their let me give them a Little Cottage on one of the human will then a book out of them that i have a lot of money give them all to dog of the monarchy. Were going to put a number up and ive got a couple up im going to get were going to eliminate them in the body mandala but im going to hit the bottom are going above him and they yell at them that i start to put on them that im 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. Ive been. Maintaining the chat on the days of jet into touch on all corn and the that is that any ink. In it they have in order to dispose its own and that of the woman thats you want to follow. It all because its on is a very dirty and i shot it. Punch him one up and i could only lead in. So many jobs. In money. But then if im one of those who live at the time going to 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 i mean. I suddenly say that enough on the israeli m. B. A. To them you know getting it done in one of the many died in one of them is on the news and on they want to get. Your. Butt in the leg out of a border that only got me 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 jungle really it. Would be a millimeter. Good there may be that it was you who do joining. Me to better board but i wont be poor but i want the love either simple what it is your. All the booty your. Boys the girardi beauty. And i got to see the image of the see. This was the home of study of all how to deep sing. Who hung himself with a 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. But obviously were still not. The Enbrel Fioretti gender the view already knows all. Too well i know god traveled all award or. Bad solo to locals of the judge will it be out of course thug was illegal would tell about it but i got a good one. There but its on a bell most of other a moment of yeah nina normal when ive. Been all morning going down are good on the salmon or on time you know whats on oclock in the on when you boggles at your they go cause a bit old but a man over to go new again to a new number one i well know what almost the manty boy was brewed thoughtful and naughty yes shipboard but i want before me im not a yes sure but i want to. See one woman whos going to want to. He want to marry you to. Too much bob anybody could do what he did. Earlier this year as italy went into lockdown in response to the corona virus 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 of 2019. A coworker told us how hed found job and deep hanging the noose around his neck was his traditional sikh turban. And i want. A word but he said the king. That. Get it going to you know i did what i know. Im gone another would up me. Get on the phone no no no and then peeking got. Any response got up and then publish. Your book on the. Almost. No. Problem. But theres something going on but dont want to put that on the input of good. Men and women 18 great and you know them on their mind again think were going to put it on to. Become a man down here and can really pull out of me. I. Think were. Going to be. Deeply in debt. Come to italy on a tourist visa had recently expired another of his friends told us theyd spoken just days earlier. And then i think i said you have been thinking. Ill come to you cant i go to that they didnt 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 in the winter getting here and i think that a Company Actually think i. Am getting out and d you never knew this already by her name you know will he come to you only you know a couple of ideas monica a couple to back it up. And then you know i cant but. Not only then how do i mean it in turn or text you know the things that pass over time a little above natalia and i do it with you here not over yet if i want to get her to the number that was even handed to. Me you know. Germany did you know a lot more runs a company and theyre 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. Dont know that i. Dont. Care we dont know maybe. Wed be up but i want to show you look but you know i dont. We also tried to contact johnny did you know all of 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 governments amnesty jenny digital i did not respond. Since the amnesty over 15000 illegal Agricultural Workers have applied for italian residence permits one to talk with friends and one of them was mild gender sing 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 when the hold of the list and the thoughts of the whole mentee up with the man i get out i learned. When i had this little sense on the command dissembled you know. That when taken on video if you dont know any their content theres all over that i really didnt get where youre just a word but not say something. For over a century Migrant Workers have been exploited in the fertile flat lands of the. 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. 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