Stuck and Exploited

Refugees and Asylum Seekers in Italy Between Exclusion, Discrimination and Struggles

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  • Francesco Della Puppa - Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia - email
  • Giuliana Sanò - Università degli Studi di Messina, Italia - email

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

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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