Stuck and Exploited

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

crossmark logo

Abstract

Refugees and asylum seekers in Italy are ‘stuck’ because they often end up caught in the legal and social limbo of the reception system. The effects of the pandemic and lockdown measures to avoid transmission have stacked on top of these conditions. This scenario, along with the Italian policy field increases the vulnerabilisation of refugees and asylum seekers for their labour exploitation, but also create a space for media struggle, where political forces and social entrepreneurs clash and manipulate the issue of “asylum seekers”. This introductory chapter analyses these aspects, introducing the thematic lines of the volume and presenting its contribution.


Open access | Peer reviewed

Submitted: Aug. 31, 2021 | Accepted: Sept. 13, 2021 | Published Oct. 27, 2021 | Language: en

Keywords Social exclusion • Italian Reception System • Refugees and asylum seekers • Exploitation • Forced (im)mobility • Struggles • Racial discrimination

Copyright © 2021 Francesco Della Puppa, Giuliana Sanò. This is an open-access work distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction is permitted, provided that the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. The license allows for commercial use. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

Permalink http://doi.org/10.30687/978-88-6969-532-2/000


read this chapter