(8 May 2015) RESTRICTION SUMMARY: AP CLIENTS ONLY
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Syracuse, Sicily - 7 May 2015
1. Migrant workers filling a crate with potatoes
2. Potatoes in crate
3. Potato field with workers in the background
4. Worker gather potatoes
5. Worker bent over digging potatoes
6. Men bent over gathering potatoes
7. Workers gathering potatoes
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Cassibile, Sicily - 7 May 2015
8. Workers putting ladders against lemon trees
9. Man with yellow bucket picking lemons off tree
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Chiara Lo Bianco, owner Agribiobianco:
"Here immigration is a resource because we have so many people that are integrated and work with us and for example the responsible, the person who is in charge of, responsible for doing the treatment in all the fields is a guy from Morocco and he drives a group of four people and here we have so many people that are from the north of Africa and I mean, it is a good resource."
11. Romanian woman picking courgette in greenhouse
12. Courgette being picked
13. Courgette flower with woman working in background
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Syracuse, Sicily - 7 May 2015
14. Worker gathering lettuce in field
15. Workers gathering lettuces and putting them in crates
16. Worker carrying crate of lettuce to pile of crates
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Catania, Sicily - 6 May 2015
17. Exterior of Cathedral of Saint Agatha in Catania
18. Piazza del Duomo
19. SOUNDBITE (Italian) Angela Ghennet Lupo, Immigration Lawyer:
"The majority live in dilapidated shacks in the fields without any services, without water, without toilets, they cook with a little fire on the ground putting big pots on top and they work all day long."
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Catania, Sicily - 8 May 2015
20. Fruit and vegetable stand in market
21. Vegetable vendor with a sack of potatoes
22. Potatoes at market
STORYLINE
As Italy and the rest of Europe struggles to deal with the ongoing migrant crisis, some of those who've fled war-torn countries are relishing their second chance, providing a valuable service to Italy's agricultural industry.
In Syracuse, 14 men line up to pluck potatoes from the rich soil of eastern Sicily - almost all newcomers to a continent where many eye them with a mix of pity and suspicion.
Their desperate efforts to cross the Mediterranean have been well-documented; but few know that those migrants who make it to Europe often spend years trapped in an immigration limbo where the only way to make a bit of money means doing the back-breaking labour that locals shun.
In Italy, which has seen the biggest number of arrivals of any European country, migrants are housed in special centres where food and clothing are provided.
Depending on their immigration status, some receive pocket money in the form of vouchers, others get cash. Some are allowed to work, others must wait months or even years in often overcrowded conditions before getting the necessary papers.
Immigration lawyer Angela Ghennet Lupo said those wishing to escape boredom or save money, often to send to relatives back home, are left with few choices.
For men, who make up the bulk of the migrants, this often means agricultural labour.
Competition for jobs is fierce and some decide to move out of the migration centres and live in abandoned stone huts that dot the countryside to be closer to the villages where workers are hired each morning.
The money is usually cash in hand, but often a local agent gets a cut, the groups say.
Other farmers aren't so scrupulous.
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