Agricultural association Coldiretti has announced that it is opening a migrant hosting center near the southern Italian city of Potenza. The center will host over 200 seasonal workers inside a facility that is "dignified and respectful of healthcare norms," the farmers' association said.
At Zaatari camp in Jordan, refugees are growing herbs, tomatoes and cucumbers... even though the camp is located in the desert, water is scarce and the land is infertile. Their solution involves recycling old mattresses...
An Italian amnesty for workers employed 'off the books', including irregular migrants, has attracted more than 207,000 applications. Most, however, came from Italians rather than migrants. Meanwhile, close to 13,000 migrants applied for a six-month extension to their stay permit linked to the amnesty.
The head of the local healthcare authority of Italy's southern city Foggia has decided to set up a mobile unit in the Borgo Mezzanone shantytown, inhabited by migrant day laborers, for COVID-19 testing after some of those living there tested positive for the virus.
An art installation in Foggia will commemorate the 16 migrant farmworkers who died in two road accidents in August 2018 in the countryside near the southern city.
Thousands of Moroccan seasonal workers were trapped in southern Spain with no work and no pay because of the coronavirus pandemic. Now they are finally heading home.
Thousands of migrant strawberry pickers from Morocco are trapped in Spain. Local groups call it a humanitarian crisis. Meanwhile, companies are trying to end their dependence on Moroccan workers.
The labor exploitation of migrant farmworkers in Piana di Gioia Tauro, in Italy's southern region of Calabria, continues amid conditions aggravated by the COVID-19 pandemic, medical aid organization MEDU claims in a new report.
The coronavirus pandemic has exacerbated inequalities, highlighting the importance of often invisible frontline workers in Italy. Trade unionist Aboubakar Soumahoro, an Ivorian native who arrived in the country 20 years ago, is now calling for stronger measures in support of agricultural workers.
A UN special rapporteur has called out the "shocking abuse" of migrants picking strawberries in Spain. The migrants are mainly Moroccan women, who come in on seasonal visas to carry out the work. Their treatment has long been criticized by human rights groups working in the field of migrant rights.
A union for farmworkers FLAI-CGIL has opened an office in the southern Italian city of Taranto to support foreign workers and help them report cases of exploitation, in order to fight the gangmaster system.
The Italian union Flai-Cgil has reported that several volunteers at informal migrant settlements around Puglia "were heavily threatened" and were denied the right to help.