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

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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