‘You’re lucky to get paid at all’: how African migrants are exploited in Italy | Hsiao-Hung Pai

Under the baking sun, workers toil for €2 an hour. And the country’s hard-right authorities keep turning the screw

The dawn was about to break as I arrived, with a team of workers in the farmer’s van, at the vast fields that stretch out for miles around Campobello, the “handsome fields”, in western Sicily. Everyone got out, and immediately started to work on their line of olive trees. It would take the team several weeks to harvest them.

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