Unrest has continued to grip Tunisia since an uprising in January toppled President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali.
Italy says about 20,000 migrants have arrived on its shores - mostly on Lampedusa - in the past three months, aboard overcrowded boats from Tunisia and war-torn Libya.
taly has transferred 1,716 North African migrants - most of them Tunisian - to a temporary camp site in its south-eastern Puglia region.
The migrants arrived by ship on Thursday from Lampedusa, a tiny island packed with thousands fleeing poverty and unrest in Tunisia.
A "tent city" has been set up to accommodate them in Manduria, a town in the southern heel of Italy.
Overcrowding has created unhygienic conditions on Lampedusa, officials say.
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