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