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