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This chapter will concentrate on understanding the nexus between immigration status and work precarity, and its effects on feelings of human dignity in informal work within the agricultural sector in Sicily (Italy). According to the International Labour Organization (ILO, 2012), the informal economy is growing across the globe and this rise is strongly connected to the reduction of decent work, defined as the availability of employment in conditions of freedom, equity, human security and dignity (ILO, 2009). For Phillips (2013), the informal economy is part of capitalist production and migrant workers, alongside other workers, are adversely incorporated in the socio-economic system through exploitative and precarious work positions where their vulnerability and poverty tend to be produced and reproduced and prevent people from achieving employment security and accumulation.
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Urzi, D. (2015). Global Citizenship: The Need for Dignity and Respect for Migrants. In: Waite, L., Craig, G., Lewis, H., Skrivankova, K. (eds) Vulnerability, Exploitation and Migrants. Migration, Diasporas and Citizenship. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137460417_16
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