Living in nowhere
Reception centres are the primary places in which asylum seekers live in Finland. Centres are located across the country, from Helsinki, the capital of Finland, on the south coast, to the city of Rovaniemi in the north. This chapter is based on an empirical study of asylum seekers’ living conditions...
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ftulaplandcdispu:oai:lacris.ulapland.fi:publications/b32261e7-9c98-4aa3-a009-d8f2ed9dbaab 2023-05-15T18:07:39+02:00 Living in nowhere Suoranta, Juha Fitzsimmons, Robert Yeasmin, Nafisa Hasanat, Waliul Brzozowski, Jan Krichner, Stefan 2020-06-04 https://research.ulapland.fi/fi/publications/b32261e7-9c98-4aa3-a009-d8f2ed9dbaab https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429344275 eng eng Routledge info:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccess Suoranta , J & Fitzsimmons , R 2020 , Living in nowhere . in N Yeasmin , W Hasanat , J Brzozowski & S Krichner (eds) , Immigration in the Circumpolar North : Integration and Resilience . Routledge , London . https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429344275 /dk/atira/pure/person/fieldofscience2010/5/17/2 International political science bookPart 2020 ftulaplandcdispu https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429344275 2022-10-13T05:54:04Z Reception centres are the primary places in which asylum seekers live in Finland. Centres are located across the country, from Helsinki, the capital of Finland, on the south coast, to the city of Rovaniemi in the north. This chapter is based on an empirical study of asylum seekers’ living conditions in Finnish reception centres. The main finding is that the interviewed asylum seekers experienced their time living in the Finnish reception centre as passive waiting in an anomie-like situation. At the reception centre, people are not living on top of a hill where they can see the valley below; rather, they are living on top of nothing but the abyss. It seems as if the asylum seeker has arrived from nowhere and is nowhere. Based on their experiences and insights, we offer concrete ideas on how life in the centres could be improved to create a more inclusive and hospitable atmosphere. Book Part Rovaniemi LaCRIS - University of Lapland Current Research System Rovaniemi ENVELOPE(26.159,26.159,66.392,66.392) Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2020. | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Reception centres are the primary places in which asylum seekers live in Finland. Centres are located across the country, from Helsinki, the capital of Finland, on the south coast, to the city of Rovaniemi in the north. This chapter is based on an empirical study of asylum seekers’ living conditions in Finnish reception centres. The main finding is that the interviewed asylum seekers experienced their time living in the Finnish reception centre as passive waiting in an anomie-like situation. At the reception centre, people are not living on top of a hill where they can see the valley below; rather, they are living on top of nothing but the abyss. It seems as if the asylum seeker has arrived from nowhere and is nowhere. Based on their experiences and insights, we offer concrete ideas on how life in the centres could be improved to create a more inclusive and hospitable atmosphere. |
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Suoranta , J & Fitzsimmons , R 2020 , Living in nowhere . in N Yeasmin , W Hasanat , J Brzozowski & S Krichner (eds) , Immigration in the Circumpolar North : Integration and Resilience . Routledge , London . https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429344275 |
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Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2020. | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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