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

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 | Pubblicato 27 Ottobre 2021 | Lingua en

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