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In September 2018, there were 5955 people living in accommodation centres all over Ireland (RIA September 2018)—former hotels, hostels, army barracks and caravan parks—waiting for their claims for asylum to be processed. Many of these people have escaped torture and persecution, or have run from life-threatening situations in order to attempt to create better lives for themselves and their families.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    The latest monthly statistics report on Direct Provision in Ireland provided by the Reception and Integration Agency was published in September 2018. They have stopped making these monthly statistics available since then.

  2. 2.

    In July 2018, the number of people who had been granted asylum in Ireland but remained in Direct Provision centres due to lack of housing stood at nearly 600 (Deegan 2018). In September 2019, this number had risen to close to 900 (Burns 2019).

  3. 3.

    On application for asylum in Ireland, applicants are provided with a reference number in the format 69/---/--. These are often referred to as ‘69 numbers’.

  4. 4.

    For confidentiality purposes, the name of the town, as well as the name of the Direct Provision centre itself, are not used throughout this book.

  5. 5.

    The different stages of the process of seeking asylum in Ireland, along with the various options for those whose claim is rejected at first instance, are dealt with in detail in Chapter 2.

  6. 6.

    One of the twenty-one images is not included here as it contains potentially recognizable individuals.

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O’Reilly, Z. (2020). Introduction. In: The In-Between Spaces of Asylum and Migration. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-29171-6_1

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