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Resisting Liminality: Connectedness, Belonging and Integration

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Asylum seekers in Ireland are placed into a deliberate situation of liminality , essentially keeping them in a transitional, in-between phase for long periods of time and preventing them from becoming part of Irish society. Liminality is created for asylum seekers through an imposed situation of precarious stability, a form of ‘hostipitality’ (Derrida 2000) , in which they wait for long and uncertain periods, belonging neither to the society they have come from, nor to the one in which they find themselves.

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O’Reilly, Z. (2020). Resisting Liminality: Connectedness, Belonging and Integration. In: The In-Between Spaces of Asylum and Migration. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-29171-6_6

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