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