Settlement approaches in the Italian Asylum System from the point of view of health professionals and social workers

Medical and inclusion/exclusion settlement approaches are the two main approaches characterizing the reception practices into the Western host societies. These settlement approaches guide how professionals take care for forced migrants and favor or obstacle autonomy and integration of asylum seekers and refugees into host societies. Still, few studies have analysed how professionals perceive the settlement approaches that guide their work with forced migrants. This study aimed to analyse the representations that a sample of 256 Italian health professionals and social workers working in both governmental and non-governmental organisations had of the settlement approaches that guided their work in the Italian Asylum System (IAS).