Migration Media Award: Second Place, Radio Category English
Authors: Luka Hvalc and team
Media: Radio Slovenia-Val 202
Date of Publication: 5-22 May, 2018
Title: Sinisha’s Work
Short summary:
The main aim of the six piece investigative report on posted workers was to expose the miserable conditions that numerous workers from the Balkans are faced with on a daily basis after being sent to work in Germany or other EU Member States via Slovenia. They are often low-paid, live in terrible conditions, and do not have proper documents. Fifty-year-old Siniša Marinković from Bosnia and Herzegovina has experienced the whole spectrum of exploitative labour practices and through the angle of his story the investigative report was very illustrative and particularly explicit in numerous details. Through the personal story we are trying to address the true dimensions of social dumping and exploitation in the labour market.
The field work consisted of travelling to Germany, Croatia, Serbia, Bosnia and Hercegovina and to several sites in Slovenia, interviewing numerous sources, collecting data and performing research.
Link to original publications:
Siniševo delo
Siniša bi lahko bil Sizif. Tudi po 12 ur na dan je garal na gradbiščih po Evropi, a je bilo njegovo delo brez smisla in poštenega plačila. Doma je iz Bosne in Hercegovine in je le eden od številnih migrantskih delavcev iz držav nekdanje Jugoslavije, ki so jih prebrisanost delodajalcev, neučinkovit nadzor, splet okoliščin in tudi njihova lastna naivnost pahnili na rob preživetja.
The English language version:
Slovenia is the biggest exporter of foreign workers to the West
Numerous workers from the Balkans go to work in Germany or other EU Member States via Slovenia. They are often low-paid, live in terrible conditions, and do not have proper documents. Fifty-year-old Siniša Marinković from Bosnia and Herzegovina has experienced the whole spectrum of exploitative labor practices.
Multimedia version
Siniševo delo
Story in english language Siniša bi lahko bil Sizif. Tudi po 12 ur na dan je garal na gradbiščih v Sloveniji, Nemčiji, Avstriji in Belgiji, a je bilo njegovo delo brez smisla in poštenega plačila.
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