Italy’s migrant fruit pickers

意大利的移民水果采摘工

The Documentary Podcast

2026-06-02

29 分钟
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In Italy, Georgia Meloni’s coalition government gained power on an anti-immigration political platform. But faced with low birth-rates and a dwindling workforce, the prime minister has had to be pragmatic. Over the next two years, hundreds of thousands of temporary visas are being offered to migrant workers, mainly from Asia and sub-Saharan Africa, to help fill the gaps. In the far south of Italy, one of the country’s poorest regions, Calabria, is famous for its citrus fruit, and thousands of farms need workers to pick their produce. Some of the migrant workers live in terrible conditions. Lizzy McNeill reports on what the reality is on the ground.
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  • It's got pretty flowers.

  • I didn't know oranges had flowers like that.

  • I mean, obviously they do because it means we pollinated, but wow, that's a really nice scent.

  • You should smell that, John.

  • It's not citrusy.

  • It's very sweet, very floral, but I can also smell the oranges.

  • Welcome to the documentary from the BBC World Service.

  • I'm Lizzie McNeil in the far south of Italy, in the toe of the country.