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

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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