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

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 | Pubblicato 27 Ottobre 2021 | Lingua en

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