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

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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