The African migrants living in squalor and picking produce for gangmasters in Italy.
In our series of letters from African journalists, Ismail Einashe meets olive pickers from Africa living in squalor and working for gangmasters for little pay in Italy.
Known as the "ghetto", it is home to hundreds of African migrant farm workers, most of whom are from The Gambia, Senegal and Tunisia. At the back of the camp is a large open area filled with piles of rubbish and a makeshift shower room which can be hired for $1 and a bucketful of water bought for $1.
The gangmaster system, known as "caporalato", means the migrants do not work directly for the farmers - and their illegal status means they are incredibly cheap for businesses, which pay them as little as $2 an hour. At night the town whimpers to life with a couple of takeaway pizza places and cafés where Tunisian and Senegalese migrants sit outside smoking cigarettes and drinking coffee.Campobello di Mazara is an eerie town full of empty and boarded-up homes
One of those who joined the protest was Issa, a Gambian migrant who also did not want to give his full name. He lives in Puglia, where he spent two years in the large Foggia ghetto, home to more than 1,500 migrants.
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