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

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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