Hosseini, Nikita

Jørgensen, Josephine Amanda

Petersen, Nadia Charlotte Dahlgren

Reindel, Nicoline Bonø

This project will focus on how rejected male asylum seekers living in Sjælsmark find themselves in a temporary position, and how they manage to negotiate their identity while living a temporary life. The project is based on a field study in Denmark conducted over two months with eight informants. Our empirical data is based on participant observations and informal talks. We have found how our informants live a stagnant life characterized by an uncertain future combined with having been deprived their legal rights. Our informants showed concern about how to stay socially alive, and we found how they negotiate their identities through strategies such as participating in communities along with both material and immaterial exchanges. These networks and social relations creates meaning in a degree that sometimes overshadows the hardship of the alienating situation the asylum seekers find themselves in. But the pressure of the exclusion from Danish society combined with the negotiations through communities put the asylum seekers in a position in between.This project will focus on how rejected male asylum seekers living in Sjælsmark find themselves in a temporary position, and how they manage to negotiate their identity while living a temporary life. The project is based on a field study in Denmark conducted over two months with eight informants. Our empirical data is based on participant observations and informal talks. We have found how our informants live a stagnant life characterized by an uncertain future combined with having been deprived their legal rights. Our informants showed concern about how to stay socially alive, and we found how they negotiate their identities through strategies such as participating in communities along with both material and immaterial exchanges. These networks and social relations creates meaning in a degree that sometimes overshadows the hardship of the alienating situation the asylum seekers find themselves in. But the pressure of the exclusion from Danish society combined with the negotiations through communities put the asylum seekers in a position in between

Livet midt i mellem: Et studie af midlertidighed blandt flygtninge på et dansk udrejsecenter

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