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

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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