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

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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