Ciao Ousmane
Ciao Ousmane In 2013 Ousmane Diallo, a 26-year-old Senegalese olive harvester, lost his life when a gas canister exploded in a Sicilian field. But though they've been deliberately forgotten, neither…
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Ciao Ousmane
In 2013 Ousmane Diallo, a 26-year-old Senegalese olive harvester, lost his life when a gas canister exploded in a Sicilian field. But though they've been deliberately forgotten, neither the events of Ousmane's life nor his tragic death are uncommon. As an African migrant, he was little mourned.
Having fled home countries devastated by colonialism and global capitalism, those who survive the journey across the Mediterranean arrive on European shores only to find themselves systematically segregated and exploited. Across Italy today, African workers toil in the fields that make it one of Europe's largest exporters of fruit and vegetables. They have been subject to anti-migrant policies over decades, from administrations across the political spectrum.
Trapped in a chokehold of subhuman living and working conditions, they are the dehumanised Other, invisible by design--the people hidden