The virus and the asparagus - a European saga

Libero Maesano

In pandemic times, in a Europe locked up everywhere, the European Union and its neo-liberal Member States have pushed hundreds of thousands of superheroes to escape from the confinement of their homes, undertake perilous journeys in huddled planes and cars, cross borderlines, and land in labor camps where they have been sequestered in jam-packed containers and put to work in crowded fields to harvest and plant crops, paid a pittance, sunrise to sunset, ten hours a day, seven days a week. We tell the compelling saga of the Romanian seasonal workers in the German asparagus fields.