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

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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