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This country report examines how the strategies and interactions of key local actors shape irregular migrant work and labour conditions in the Farm-to-Fork sector, focusing on the Saluzzo fruit district (Piedmont region), Italy. The main research question asks how employers, migrant workers, state institutions, and non-state actors (trade unions, NGOs, third-sector organisations) act and interact within a “local battleground” to produce specific outcomes in migrant workers’ working and living conditions. The study draws on qualitative fieldwork in Saluzzo, including interviews with a wide set of stakeholders (public administrations, labour inspectorate, employment services, employers and employers’ associations, unions, NGOs and volunteers) and with migrant workers of different nationalities and legal statuses, complemented by documentary and contextual sources on the district’s agricultural economy and labour governance. Findings show that labour conditions remain structurally precarious due to interlocking pressures: squeezed margins and uncertainty driven by large-scale distribution and climate-related instability; bureaucratic constraints in migration governance (notably the slow and restrictive flows-decree system); and persistent housing shortages and discrimination. These factors incentivise employers’ demand for a highly flexible, low-cost workforce and push migrants—especially asylum seekers and undocumented workers—to accept irregular contracts (including “grey work”), low wages, unsafe conditions, and overcrowded or informal housing. Actor strategies are justified through three recurring frames—legal, possibility, and interest—whose clashes generate fragmented governance. While initiatives such as Good Land and Common Ground improved coordination, outreach, and rights awareness, their project-based, short-term nature limits sustainability. Overall, the report concludes that local interventions are necessary but insufficient without structural national reforms on labour intermediation, residence-permit pathways, enforcement capacity, and housing provision.