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SUMMARY:Bordering the surplus population across the Mediterranean: war\, b
 orders\, and labour  - Lucia Pradella\, Kings College London
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CONTACT:Connie Tang
DESCRIPTION:The military and the business of border control are two expand
 ing investment sectors. But what is their link to the food we consume? And
  what do labour conditions in agriculture tell us about the nature of valu
 e and investment in the contemporary global economy? My paper discusses th
 e impact of the NATO war on Libya and the externalization of EU borders in
  the Mediterranean upon the development of labour exploitation and unfree 
 labour in the agricultural sector in southern Europe\, looking in particul
 ar at the case of Italy. Focusing on the period between the 2007/8 crisis\
 , the 2011 uprisings in North Africa and the Middle East and 2018\, I trac
 e the links between the pillaging of Libyan resources and the exploitation
  of immigrant workers in Libya and in Italian agriculture\, as well as the
  role of the Italian state and Libyan state and non-state actors in contai
 ning and disciplining a reserve army of black African labour through a bru
 tal system of detention\, extortion and forced labour. This system both tr
 aps immigrants in Libya and pushes them towards Europe. Agri-business and 
 retail corporations operating in Italy have benefitted from the import of 
 cheap energy and vulnerable workers from Libya. Immigrants’ experiences 
 of violence and forced labour in Libya can play a disciplining role when t
 hey arrive in Italy\, but can also encourage them to mobilize and reclaim 
 their collective rights. The paper concludes with a reflection on the role
  of war and borders in a new era of global revolt.
LOCATION:New Combination Room\, Corpus Christi College. Bene’t Street\, 
 Cambridge
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