Invitation – Conference: Food Production and Institutionalised Exploitation

The conference is the final results-sharing event of the project: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Mig. Pro. Migrants’ protests: how the borders of citizenship are conceived, mobilized and constructed by migrants’ farm workers protests.

Food Production and Institutionalised Exploitation
A dialogue between Trans-Atlantic resistance practices of Migrant
Agricultural Worker-activists, their networks of allies and academia

Following institutional greetings, the day’s agenda includes a summary of the research process and research results. The contributions from speakers are structured across three main panels. The first panel is designed to foster a dialogue between activists from Canada and two Italian regions that have historically been sites of struggle for migrant agricultural workers. They will interact with the general audience and the national representative of FLAI CGIL, exploring the not/interconnections between activism, working conditions, legal interventions, and social projects—particularly in the Italian context of fighting labour exploitation.

The afternoon will continue with two panels. The first will showcase various forms of mobilization, including legal avenues, chosen by workers and their support networks. The second panel will connect these practical phenomena and strategies with academic research, presenting analysis, reflections, and key questions about the current state of research concerning interdisciplinarity, applicability/practice based, ethics and care of the research process itself.

Event by: Eriselda Shkopi

Due to limited seating, registration is required by September 30, 2025, at 24:00 (midnight)> LINK
The event will be in English. Interpretation will be available for the morning sessions.
Additionally, side events with activists and presentations of our policy recommendations will take place in October and November 2025. For all updates, visit the news section of the DFBC and the Mig. Pro. project’s website.