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.

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

Thema codes JBFG • JBFH • JBFA • 1DST

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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