Andalusia: the slaves of the market gardener of Europe

A sub-Saharan worker in a greenhouse in Almeria, Andalusia, in March 2019 (illustrative image).

AP Photo / Emilio Morenatti

By: Noémie Lehouelleur

1 min

Modern slavery: it is the Spanish Minister of Labor who uses this expression when she mentions these Moroccans, Senegalese, Malians or migrants from Eastern Europe who came to work in the greenhouses in the south of the country, in Andalusia precisely.

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Melons, watermelons, peppers, strawberries and tomatoes are grown there in the middle of winter.

These agricultural workers are said to be nearly 100,000 working in greenhouses, at least a third of whom are undocumented, according to the Andalusian agricultural union, underpaid, exploited, crammed into slums.

"Andalusia: The slaves of the market gardener of Europe", a report by

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