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