Asylum Seekers Excluded from the Reception System in the COVID-19 Emergency

Expulsions, Restrictions, Administrative Extensions and Access to the ʻSurfacingʼ Procedure

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Abstract

This contribution analyses the main consequences of the emergency regulations caused by the pandemic crisis by COVID-19 on non-EU citizens and, in particular, on asylum seekers; from health risks to movement restrictions, from difficulties in accessing administrative procedures to the critical issues of the regulations on the emergence of irregular work referred to in Law Decree 34/2020, as an emergency and ineffective response to the closure of the borders, within the framework of the current Italian reception system, generally without long-term planning and with access preclusions for homeless, ‘sur place’ or ‘dublinati’ asylum seekers.


Open access | Peer reviewed

Presentato: 22 Novembre 2020 | Accettato: 07 Marzo 2021 | Pubblicato 27 Ottobre 2021 | Lingua: en

Keywords Asylum seekers • Coronavirus emergency • Regularisation • Emersion procedure • Protection void

Copyright © 2021 Marco Ferrero, Chiara Roverso. 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/10.30687/978-88-6969-532-2/013


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