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For Dignity, Against Racism: The Struggles of Asylum Seekers in Italy

Martina Pasqualetto    Universitat de Barcelona, Espanya    

Fabio Perocco    Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia    

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abstract

In Italy, over the last years in the world of social struggles asylum seekers have been in the spotlight several times, having led several episodes of mobilisations and protests. They emerged as political subjects, with their own claims and situations; parallel to the issue of reception, they expressed themselves in the public space as asylum seekers, with campaigns, pickets, and marches, with which the respect for their rights and dignity is advocated. This study analyses the causes, forms and repercussions of the struggles of asylum seekers in the last decade. After the analysis of the experience of immigrants’ struggles over the last three decades, the article examines the social roots and the features of the struggles of asylum seekers between 2011 to 2019, and considers their meaning in the political context.

Published
Oct. 27, 2021
Accepted
Jan. 23, 2021
Submitted
Jan. 7, 2021
Language
EN
ISBN (PRINT)
978-88-6969-533-9
ISBN (EBOOK)
978-88-6969-532-2

Keywords: RacismItalyAsylum seekersStrugglesReception

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