Stuck and Exploited

Refugees and Asylum Seekers in Italy Between Exclusion, Discrimination and Struggles

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Abstract

This volume analyses exclusion processes, segregation dynamics and the forms of discrimination of refugees and asylum seekers in Italy, where the reception system is marked by opaqueness and arbitrariness and is becoming increasingly similar to the model of “camps”. The numerous vibrant contributions present a fully-fledged system of inferiorization, characterised by labour exploitation, housing discomfort, meagre rights and control strategies, exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic, which has led to a sharp worsening of the health, work, housing and administrative conditions. A framework that has found opposition in the daily resistance and in the struggles of asylum seekers.

Keywords Inferiorisation • Refugees and asylum seekers • Immigrants • Intercultural relations • Racial discrimination • Law 132/2018 • Forced migrant women • Asylum seekers • Inclusion • Forced (im)mobility • Trafficking in human beings • Credibility assessment • Coronavirus emergency • Coronavirus • Asylum System • Migration policies • Syndemics • Unaccompanied migrants • Exclusion • Homelessness • Reception • Welfare • COVID-19 • Informal settlements • Trentino • Socio-legal operator • Amnesty • Tent city • Domestic space as a part of migrant reception syst • Struggles • Referral system • Pandemic • Ecological rift • Inequalities • Model • Public health • Receiving System • Borders • Agriculture • Gender-based violence • Immigration policies • Social exclusion • Fundamental rights • Asylum • Migration • Employment • Bozen • Ethnicity • Migrant farmworkers • Racism • Direct social action • Milan • Caregiving • Refugees • Ghettos • Emergency • Italy • The state • Brenner • Bologna area • Humanitarianism • Protection void • Exploitation • Regularisation • Migrants exploitation • Immigrant workers • Reception system • Health disparities • Italian Reception System • Racial inequalities • Novel Coronavirus • Emplacement • Third sector organizations • European Union • Civil society • Emersion procedure • Italian reception system • Gioia Tauro Plain • Social innovation • Asylum right

Thema codes JBFG • JBFH • JBFA • 1DST

Permalink http://doi.org/10.30687/978-88-6969-532-2 | e-ISBN 978-88-6969-532-2 | ISBN (PRINT) 978-88-6969-533-9 | Pubblicato 27 Ottobre 2021 | Lingua en

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