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

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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