MODERN-DAY SLAVERY: Sikhs exploited in Italy

[harkirat23]

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2017/dec/22/sikhs-secretly-exploited-in-italy-migrant-workers

Why do sikhs put up with this? 

 

[jkvlondon]

9 hours ago, harkirat23 said:

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2017/dec/22/sikhs-secretly-exploited-in-italy-migrant-workers

Why do sikhs put up with this? 

 

initially it is economics that make them leave Punjab as very little scope for prosperity , once in foreign control they are exploited as they are hard workers  doesn't matter if it's in Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Europe . They are willing to do the work initially and because of naivety/desperation put trust into employers' words . So many apne are stranded in arabic countries without their passports , without wages  being charged rents that never get paid off ...It is tragic . Guess Italians are just cottoning on to this , if I am correct early pioneers in America and Canada were also treated badly also but the Sikhs organised and started fighting back against it. This is now starting to happen in Italy with a worker's union on the table and court cases and demonstrations happening .

[Guest AjeetSinghPunjabi]

Today's servants are tomorrow's masters , if only the servants know how to make it happen ! 

 

but sikhs as usual are very cow people . and easily give into false assurances , which is why sikhs have suffered historically 

[puzzled]

But its not just others sadly, our "own" people threat their own like that too. Where i live many bechare apne from Punjab work for Punjabis who pay them £2, £3, an hour! its true.  some of the apne who are illegally living here and work as builders get treated like crap by the Punjabis that they work for. There is a Punjabi sweet shop around the corner from my house who used to pay there Punjabi workers from India just £2 an hour. in fact the town i live in this happens all the time and everywhere. Apne business owners know that the becahre from India will work for little money and they know they can boss them around because many of them are illegally living here. Its sad really. Many girls from India work as maids for other Punjabis and clean their houses and do cooking and they get payed very little.

I sometimes see this old Sikh man from India, must be around 70, he can barley walk properly and he go'es from door to door posting leaflets/adverts, i doubt he gets paid much either 

Its not easy leaving your family behind and then moving to a foreign country where your "own" treat you like crap and call you names. 

[puzzled]

My cousin lives in Southall and he told me some girls from Punjab work as prostitutes there! In fact once or twice in Southall i was even given a contact card advertising a escort company! it  was some Punjabi guy and girl handing them out to passers by ... 

Sickening really 

[puzzled]

On 9/23/2018 at 1:30 AM, lostconfussedsingh said:

Bro thats really sad i heard of all this stuff as well. In ilford lane its the same as well with apni girls doing the same thing as well.

 

Southall is supposed to be the heavist drug place for our punjabis

 

This video is sad and true

 

Yeah in the town I live in there was a house which was used as a brothel with females from punjab working/living in it. The police raided it and it was shut down. There are many eastern European girls who work as prostitutes where I live.

It's really bad 

[harkirat23]

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.news.com.au/lifestyle/real-life/news-life/the-silent-drama-of-indian-migrant-farmers-in-italy-we-are-living-a-second-hell-on-earth-we-never-imagined/news-story/eddf1f899d63d79d9c0002fcba7cd3ed

 

https://m.gulf-times.com/story/397168/Indian-labourers-abused-and-exploited-in-Italy

 

Can’t say it hasn’t been reported or highlighted by different newspapers!

[mahandulai]

On 9/21/2018 at 11:49 PM, harkirat23 said:

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2017/dec/22/sikhs-secretly-exploited-in-italy-migrant-workers

Why do sikhs put up with this? 

 

why would anyone put up with this? ITS A HUMAN ISSUE, not a sikh one.

[genie]

This issue was raised before on this forum a year ago but Sikhs didn't care to do anything about it. Instead of helping those Sikhs in italy escape their enslavement and inhuman treatment we have idiots in our community washing their hands of them and saying its only their own fault for going there in the first place.

The least we all can do is raise awareness about their plight either by creating videos/ posts on social media or contacting refugee/human rights orgs in Italy to help them out of their hardship.