Stuck and Exploited

Refugees and Asylum Seekers in Italy Between Exclusion, Discrimination and Struggles

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

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 | Published Oct. 27, 2021 | Language en

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