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

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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