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

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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