«Sensali di carne umana»: Scalabrini e gli agenti di emigrazione

The topic of emigration agents has an important place in Scalabrini’s reflection, so much so that it returns almost obsessively in his writings. The image that his writings convey to us of these figures is only and exclusively a negative image: the agents are held responsible for almost all the misfortunes that can befall the individual and collective migratory experience and are invariably described as «merchants of human flesh», men without scruples and without conscience. But the reflection on the agents also shows against the light Scalabrini’s idea on migrants, politics and emigration in general