The status of homelessness: Access to housing for asylum-seeking migrants as an instrument of migration control in Italy and Sweden

IF 2.3 2区社会学 Q1 SOCIAL ISSUES

Critical Social Policy Pub Date : 2022-11-01 DOI:10.1177/02610183221078437

Enrico Giansanti, A. Lindberg, Martin Joormann

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Abstract

Homelessness and other forms of destitution among asylum-seeking migrants are currently on the rise across Europe, as migrants’ access to social rights, including housing, has been restricted through repressive migration policies, fuelled by the welfare nationalism and chauvinism that surge among European states. This article explores the largely overlooked homelessness experienced by migrants seeking asylum in two different geographic and political contexts: Italy and Sweden. Building on research conducted over six years, including interviews with state officials, social and NGO workers, and testimonies of asylum-seeking migrants, we trace the logics and effects of policies that not only fail to deliver minimum welfare provisions to asylum-seeking migrants, but which produce and use homelessness as a way of controlling this group. The implications for asylum-seeking migrants include racialised discrimination, class-based and poverty-related health issues, and other harms, which are the direct result of policies that render access to fundamental social rights, including housing, into instruments of migration control.

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无家可归的状况：意大利和瑞典将寻求庇护的移民获得住房作为移民控制的工具

在寻求庇护的移民中，无家可归和其他形式的贫困目前在欧洲各地呈上升趋势，因为移民获得包括住房在内的社会权利的机会受到压制性移民政策的限制，而这些政策又受到欧洲国家中激增的福利民族主义和沙文主义的推动。这篇文章探讨了在意大利和瑞典这两个不同的地理和政治背景下寻求庇护的移民所经历的被忽视的无家可归问题。基于六年多来的研究，包括对国家官员、社会和非政府组织工作人员的采访，以及寻求庇护的移民的证词，我们追溯了政策的逻辑和影响，这些政策不仅未能向寻求庇护的移民提供最低福利，而且还产生并利用无家可归作为控制这一群体的一种方式。对寻求庇护移徙者的影响包括种族歧视、基于阶级和与贫困有关的健康问题以及其他危害，这些都是将获得包括住房在内的基本社会权利作为控制移徙工具的政策的直接结果。

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期刊介绍： Critical Social Policy provides a forum for advocacy, analysis and debate on social policy issues. We publish critical perspectives which: ·acknowledge and reflect upon differences in political, economic, social and cultural power and upon the diversity of cultures and movements shaping social policy; ·re-think conventional approaches to securing rights, meeting needs and challenging inequalities and injustices; ·include perspectives, analyses and concerns of people and groups whose voices are unheard or underrepresented in policy-making; ·reflect lived experiences of users of existing benefits and services;