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

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 | Published Oct. 27, 2021 | Language en

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