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

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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