Last Monday, Punjabi farmworker Satnam Singh suffered critical injuries in an accident on an Italian farm — and then his boss left him to die. The shocking case showed how Italian agriculture treats migrant workers’ lives as the cheapest of commodities.
June 19 was time for mourning as Italy’s agromafia claimed its latest victim. Thirty-one-year-old migrant Satnam Singh died in a Roman hospital, two days after his arm was cut off and his legs were fractured in a tragic accident. He had been operating an agricultural machine in a farm near Latina, a rural province fifty miles south of Rome where criminal networks systematically exploit the labor of thousands of migrants from Punjab, India.
