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

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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