Direct Provision
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This book examines approaches and responses to working with the asylum-seeking, refugee and migrant communities in Ireland. Through their experiences, analyses and activist accounts, contributors name direct provision as a system that facilitates the marginalization and dehumanizing of people. In making visible some of the undocumented challenges to direct provision, the co-operation and engagement between local and migrant communities, and the very real and moving experiences of living in such conditions, this publication forms a part of the ongoing challenge to direct provision. It calls for a reconsideration of the infallibility of the reductionist-dominant narrative that reduces responsibility to care and protect human life, to narrow economic considerations, and calls on the State to recognize its duty of care in its fullest conceptualization. While analysing through the lens of care, the reductionist and repressive State policies and practices are revealed. Most emphasis is placed on the reactions and resilience of the asylum-seeking community, through their numerous acts of resistance, supported by a significant cohort of friends and activists within and outwith the direct provision system.
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Jacqui O'Riordan: Introduction: The Uncaring State - Part I Structures and Policy on Asylum in the Irish State - Piaras Mac Éinrí: Concepts of Asylum and Refugee Status: Irish Approaches to Date - Claire Dorrity: State Security versus Human Security: Asylum Policy and Its Discontents - Michael Blaney: Who's Afraid of the Irish State? - Joe Moore: Activist Beginnings: Local and National Campaigns and Initiatives - Daniel Delaney and Megan Killian: The McMahon Working Group - Part II Challenging Institutions: Activist Perspectives - Joe Moore: Racisms, State Racism and Resistance - Lucky Khambule: The Power of Organizing from Within: Lucky's Life and Journey in Direct Provision and KRAC Protest - Florence Eriamiantoe: My Experience of Living in Direct Provision - Gertrude Cotter: Beyond Ribbon Cutting: A Personal Reflection - Tess O: The Liberation Protest - Part III Childhoods Lived in Direct Provision: Providing Alternative Spaces and Places Where Children Are Enabled to Flourish - Annie Cummins: Children without Childhoods: The Experiences of Children in Direct Provision in Ireland - Nomaxabixo Princess Maye: The Nature and Consequences of Institutionalizing Families - Temmy A: My Journey into Direct Provision - Jacqui O'Riordan, Deirdre Horgan and Shirley Martin: Children's Play in a Hostile Environment - Kaffy: Controlled: Raising Children and Living under Surveillance - Naomi Masheti: The Psychosocial Wellbeing of Asylum Seeking Children Living in Direct Provision Centres in Ireland - Part IV Women and Men as Gendered Adults Living in Direct Provision - Ciara Burke: Women's Migratory Journeys: Hope and Pain - From Home to DP to Home Again - Amin Sharifi Isaloo: Liminality in the Direct Provisional System: Living under Extreme Rules and Conditions - Dominic Hewson: 'Being Made Different': Inactivity, Dependency and Emasculation in Direct Provision - Keelin Barry: Invisible: Disabled Child and Adult Asylum Seekers Living in Direct Provision - Caroline Muthoni Munyi: Struggles of Living in Direct Provision - Ellen, Jessie Nswazi, Natalie: Leaving, Arriving, Beginning: Residents' Stories of Coming - Joe Moore: Living under the Threat of Deportation: Activist Counter-Deportation Strategies in a Changing Environment - Vukasin Nedeljkovic: Direct Provision Diary 2007-2009 - Melanie Marks and Hassan Ali Hassan: Resisting: Poems - Part V Realizing Human and Social Potential: Initiatives, Experiences, Resistances - Niyi Kolawole: From Seeking Asylum to Serving Knowledge: The Journey of an Asylum Seeker in Ireland - Pako Mokobo: My Journey through Higher Education: A Struggle for Self-Improvement to Contribute to Irish Society - Mike FitzGibbon: Becoming a University of Sanctuary: Making UCC a Welcome Place for Asylum Seekers - Graham Clifford, Yolanda Mhene and Justine Looney: The Sanctuary Runner Stories - Vera Stojanovic: Ordinary - Joe Moore: Anti-Deportation Ireland: Emergence, Growth and Actions - Angela Veale, Sarah Robinson, Naomi Masheti, and Barbara Tint: Applied Improvisation and Visual Methodologies in Priority Identification with Asylum Seeker Women in Direct Provision - Kathy D'Arcy: The Journey to Me: Exploring Identity and Belonging through Creativity with Children Living in Direct Provision in Cork - Fiona Kearney and Tadhg Crowley: Creative Agency: Enabling Cultural Participation for Young Asylum Seekers, Refugees and Migrants in a Museum Context - Mike FitzGibbon: Conclusions: Reduction, Repression, Reaction, Resistance - Index.
