There are about 430,000 undocumented workers in Italy's agricultural sector, 100,000 of whom are victims of exploitation, according to a recent Oxfam Italy report titled "Maturi Per Cambiamento" (Ripe for Change).
An NGO rescue ship and a merchant vessel are waiting to disembark more than 300 migrants rescued in the Mediterranean Sea. Malta and Italy have refused the Mission Lifeline rescue ship permission to dock.
Chancellor Merkel has sought to downplay expectations from this week's EU summit for a European solution. The mini-summit of 16 EU leaders created "a lot of goodwill" to discuss EU disagreements on migration, she said.
After the new Italian government turned away a rescue boat with hundreds of migrants aboard, Interior Minister Matteo Salvini said he wants to expel 100,000 migrants from the country. Asylum experts are skeptical Salvini can achiev1
Over 40,000 migrants have arrived in Europe so far this year, according to IOM. This is around half the number of arrivals in the same period in 2017. The UN migration agency reports that an estimated 857 people have died or went mi1