Open AccessItalian Reception Policies and Pandemic: From Exclusion to Abandonment
Author(s) -
Davide Filippi,
Luca Giliberti
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
dve domovini
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1581-1212
pISSN - 0353-6777
DOI - 10.3986/dd.2021.2.10
Subject(s) - refugee , abandonment (legal) , pandemic , covid-19 , social exclusion , phone , ethnography , political science , sociology , criminology , medicine , linguistics , philosophy , disease , pathology , anthropology , infectious disease (medical specialty) , law
The article analyzes how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected the management of reception centers for refugees and asylum seekers in Italy. By analyzing the transformation of Italian reception policies in the last years, the article shows the relationship between these changes and the condition of refugees and asylum seekers in these centers during the COVID-19 pandemic. Overcrowded housing, the absence of institutional guidance on managing the situation, and the interruption of many migrants’ migratory projects are the main findings that emerged. The article is based on digital ethnographic techniques, in addition to phone interviews with key speakers of the social contexts monitored online.