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