Stuck and Exploited

Refugees and Asylum Seekers in Italy Between Exclusion, Discrimination and Struggles

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  • Francesco Della Puppa - Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia - email
  • Giuliana Sanò - Università degli Studi di Messina, Italia - email

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

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 | Pubblicato 27 Ottobre 2021 | Lingua en

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