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

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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