The possibility of a life-changing "raspberry passport" through agricultural work is fading for many South Asian workers, forcing already vulnerable people into even more precarious and often exploitative situations.
One Bangladeshi man interviewed for this story who works as an intermediary recruiting workers through a small shop he runs says that it is common practice that people are recruited to work on agricultural jobs by people they already know who are there.“Their own countrymen are taking advantage of them because they are dependent on them to secure and maintain employment, and also they do not speak the language or know how to navigate the bureaucracy in the country.
Once Bhattarai got on his feet, he started NIALP, the Nepalese Intercultural Association Lisboa, Portugal, to help new arrivals adapt to life in Portugal.“People need a job to survive here and support big families back home, ” he says. The association provides free Portuguese classes, as well as social and legal support to new arrivals from South Asian countries.
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