Stuck and Exploited

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

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open access | peer reviewed
    edited by
  • Francesco Della Puppa - Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia - email
  • Giuliana Sanò - Università degli Studi di Messina, Italia - email

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

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 | Published Oct. 27, 2021 | Language en

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