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The Cages of Mumbai
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Shortly after arriving in Mumbai, another corporate executive demanded, "Show me the girls!" I led him out to the waiting taxi and told the driver to take us to Cumberland Road. Ten minutes later our taxi slowly entered a very narrow street lined on both sides by wired cages one meter wide and two meters high. In each cage stood a girl or woman in rags, many of whom were obviously ravaged by sexually transmitted diseases. After less than 50 meters the executive turned very pale and said, "Take me back to the hotel right now!"

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Filed under: Bombay Human trafficking Mumbai Prostitution Slavery
 

Slave Labor for the Mafia

Xenophobes in homogenous European countries often complain that immigrants will erase their most precious cultural norms. The race riots in southern Italy last weekend may be one indicator that change is inevitable, as African immigrants who do not live by the country's infamous omertà code of silence violently protested against the powerful Mafia clans that control their lives, says Roberto Saviano, author of Gomorrah, an anti-Mafia book that earned him both critical praise and a 24-hour police guard.

Saviano says the rioters are among the hundreds of thousands of immigrants caught up in a brutal cheap-labor system the Mafia runs for legitimate businesses from Milan to Naples. Many have political asylum or are otherwise legally in Italy, but legal or not, the migrants are managed by a Mafia-run employment system, the caporalato, that operates like a 21st century chain gang. Saviano says that those who object to low wages or poor working conditions are simply eliminated. If they complain, they get killed.

http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1953619,00.html

Filed under: Immigration Italy Labor Mafia Slavery
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