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