Andalusia: the slaves of the market gardener of Europe
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A sub-Saharan worker in a greenhouse in Almeria, Andalusia, in March 2019 (illustrative image).
AP Photo / Emilio Morenatti
By: Noémie Lehouelleur
20 mins
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.
Melons, watermelons, peppers, strawberries and tomatoes are grown there in the middle of winter.
These agricultural workers would be nearly 100,000 to work in the greenhouses, of which at least a third would be undocumented, according to the Andalusian agricultural union, underpaid, exploited, crammed in slums.
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“Andalusia: the slaves of the market gardener of Europe”, a large report by Noémie Lehouelleur.
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