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

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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