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