Migration and Legal Precarity in the Time of Pandemic: Qualitative Research on the Italian Case

Bonizzoni, Paola; Dotsey, Senyo

doi:10.3986/dd.2021.2.09

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“…In the Italian case, the system’s fragmentation has meant a total lack of support to the vulnerable categories as the pandemic gained ground [ 24 ]. For example, people affected by COVID-19 had the legal obligation to isolate themselves.…”

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Unequal Access to Testing and Vaccination Services for the Homeless and Undocumented Population During COVID-19 Pandemic

Morrone

Buonomini

Sannella

et al. 2022

Int J Public Health

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Objectives: To furnish a model to ensure access and use of healthcare services to the undocumented and homeless population.Methods: Between March 2020 and October 2021, public and third sector actors in Rome implemented an accessible COVID-19 screening service and vaccination program targeting the homeless and undocumented population.Results: 95.6% of the patients tested negative to both rapid and molecular tests. 0.9% tested positive to both. 0.7% were false negatives, while 2.8% were false positives. None of the participants refused the diagnostic treatment. From July to October 2021, 1384 people received a complete cycle of the COVID-19 vaccine through the program. 632 (45.6%) also agreed to perform the antibodies testing before inoculation. 318 (50.31%) of these were positive at the time of vaccination.Conclusion: We present a cost-effective model for reducing structural barriers to access diagnostic and preventive services for the homeless and undocumented population that can be applied to different public health settings.

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Unequal Access to Testing and Vaccination Services for the Homeless and Undocumented Population During COVID-19 Pandemic

Morrone

Buonomini

Sannella

et al. 2022

Int J Public Health

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“…Uncertain and insecure (temporary and marginal) work produces subjective positions that negatively impact all other aspects of health and social life. Many people with legal documents work in this sector without contracts [ 6 , 69 , 70 ]. It is the lack of contracts—the informality of their employment that causes them to be unable to seek remuneration for lost wages, for instance—that makes them precarious.…”

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“…Focusing on migrant care workers in Italy, this article explores the (dual) impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic within the context of state-constructed precarity. While the pandemic affected the employment conditions and well-being of all segments of the population in Europe, migrant populations were some of the hardest-hit groups [ 5 , 6 ]. This was a product of their concentration in the worst-hit sectors—such as the care sector—combined with the multiple forms of vulnerability, risk, exploitation, and precarity produced by their intersectional identities (i.e., visa regimes, migratory status, gender, and ethnicity) [ 7 ].…”

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COVID-19 and (Im)migrant Carers in Italy: The Production of Carer Precarity

Dotsey

Lumley‐Sapanski

Ambrosini

2023

IJERPH

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This article explores the impact of COVID-19 restrictions on foreign health workers in Italy. Focusing on caregivers in Lombardia, we explore what we call carer precarity, an emergent form of precarity resulting from pandemic restrictions exacerbating existing socio-legal vulnerabilities. The duality of the carer role—complete household and societal reliance in addition to simultaneous socio-legal marginalization—shapes their precarity. Utilizing data from 44 qualitative interviews with migrant care workers in live-in and daycare facilities that were conducted prior to and during the COVID-19 pandemic in Italy, we demonstrate how the migrant populations working in the care sector were particularly adversely affected due to their migratory status and working conditions. Migrants are excluded from or have differential access to a range of benefits or entitlements and are employed in undervalued work. Workers with live-in employment experienced tiered access to benefits plus the spatiality of restrictions, resulting in their near-complete confinement. Drawing on Gardner (2022) and Butler’s (2009) conceptualizations of precarity, we describe the emergence of a new form of pandemic-induced spatial precarity for migrant care workers at the nexus of gendered labor, limited mobility, and the spatiality of and a hierarchy of rights associated with migratory status. The findings have implications for healthcare policy and migration scholarship.

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“…For Italy, the study of Bonizzoni and Dotsey (2021) also detailed the series of juridical disadvantages that immigrants faced, and a key issue was the difficulty in accessing a range of social benefits that were instituted by the government for the emergency. Again, they suffered language barriers and a lack of technological skills.…”

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Immigrant Women’s Protagonism: Exercising Leadership Roles in Ethnic Churches at the Time of the Pandemic in Italy

Molli

2022

Religions

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This paper discusses the protagonism expressed by immigrant women in religion via a series of leadership roles and expands on this theme by considering the pandemic as an emblematic period in which such female activism revealed itself. While the literature gives important details on gender inequalities generated by COVID-19, this article brings to attention agency, resilience and innovation. The case of catholic ethnic churches in Italy, a country particularly hit by the implications of COVID-19, is the empirical field. This paper uses qualitative data obtained through prolonged fieldwork (2018–2022), allowing to discuss the role of ethnic churches before and after the pandemic. The empowerment processes of women in religion and their leading role in terms of welfare provision and activism are detailed, concluding by considering the implications of these. While public institutions were in trouble, religious minorities, and notably their female members, acted to ensure the survival of non-Italian citizens.

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Migration and Legal Precarity in the Time of Pandemic: Qualitative Research on the Italian Case

Cited by 8 publications

References 16 publications

Unequal Access to Testing and Vaccination Services for the Homeless and Undocumented Population During COVID-19 Pandemic

Unequal Access to Testing and Vaccination Services for the Homeless and Undocumented Population During COVID-19 Pandemic

COVID-19 and (Im)migrant Carers in Italy: The Production of Carer Precarity

Immigrant Women’s Protagonism: Exercising Leadership Roles in Ethnic Churches at the Time of the Pandemic in Italy

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