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

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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