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

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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