Stuck and Exploited

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

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

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 | Pubblicato 27 Ottobre 2021 | Lingua en

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