A stage of limbo
A meta-synthesis of refugees' liminality
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5774611 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ville R Hartonen (0000-0002-1831-4812, School of Applied Educational Science and Teacher Education University of Eastern Finland Joensuu Finland, corresponding author), Pertti Väisänen (0000-0002-8316-1373, School of Applied Educational Science and Teacher Education University of Eastern Finland Joensuu Finland), Linnea Karlsson (0000-0003-2581-314X, Faculty of Educational Sciences, Department of Education University of Helsinki Helsinki Finland), Sinikka Pöllänen (0000-0002-0570-6032, School of Applied Educational Science and Teacher Education University of Eastern Finland Joensuu Finland) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 71 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 1132-1167 |
| Publication date | 2021-09-23 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Applied Psychology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0269-994X • E-ISSN: 1464-0597 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/apps.12349 |
| OpenAlex | W3200015309 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 41 |
| References cited | 121 |
The asylum regime encloses tens of millions of applicants for international protection in camps and different types of reception centres, to wait even decades for their cases to be resolved. Simultaneously both within and outside the nation state, asylum seekers and refugees occupy a social space outside the natural order of things, a stage of limbo. By incorporating the classical anthropological concepts of limbo and liminality to the methodological possibilities of meta-ethnography, we conducted to our knowledge the first meta-synthesis of 17 scientific peer-reviewed articles with the aims of defining what constitutes the concept of a stage of limbo and investigating refugees' and asylum seekers' agency as they cope when navigating in it. By dissecting detailed descriptions of forced migrants' experiences of liminality, our synthesis identified four key concepts involved in negotiations of agency in a stage of limbo: process of eligibility , spatial-temporal inconsistency , ontological insecurity and actions
Asian Geopolitics and Ethnography · Migration, Health and Trauma · Migration, Refugees, and Integration
Forced migration and women's empowerment
Kultúrna integrácia ukrajinských odídenkýň na Slovensku a jej bariéry
Konsep Liminalitas Dalam Ritual Andherenat
The role of time for refugees’ work
Asylum seekers’ experiences of participatory barriers in the educative pre-integrational programmes
Respondent‐Driven Sampling as a Tool for Studying Migrants in Need of International Protection
Rupture and liminality
Residential Mobility Decisions of Anglophone Migrants in Douala, Cameroon
Shatila as a Campscape
Uniquely othered and distinctly authored
Who Is Smuggler? Contradictory Positions and Unsettled Roles in Smuggling Assemblage on the Balkan Route
Politically Incorrect Immigrants and the (Un)Funny Business of Becoming Civilized
Longing for Something Better
Children and Families’ Experiences with Document Portability, Security and Verification During Forced Migration
From loss to involuntary liquidity
My Pillow Is Filled with Tears… Syrian Refugees’ Journey to Australia
Intergenerational Trauma in Refugee Families
Housing and health for people from refugee and asylum-seeking backgrounds
HIV Care for Men on the Move
Managing Dual Transitions
Borders and liminality in the right to health of migrants in transit
Imagine, 7 Years Without a Future”
Double transition of young migrants in Luxembourg
Bidi Bidi Creativity
Between Worlds
Comedy and refugee liminality
Return or Regularization? A Temporal Analysis of Rejected Asylum Seekers in Germany
Refugee Camps as Contested Gendered Spaces
Stuck in the waiting room
Continuing bonds and the posthumous child
Intentions, Strategies, and Actions
Post-migration experiences and the reconstruction of gender identity among young afghan women in Turkey
Language learning in liminal spaces
Rethinking liminality in refugee and migration studies
Unpacking the temporary protection of displaced people from Ukraine within the tightening migration governance in Sweden and Finland
Protracted Exile and Active Pariahdom
Condición liminal de migrantes en Tapachula, Chiapas, México
When the universal right to education meets the liminal legality of migrant children
Uncertainties of Temporary Protection
Hacking the border
Let the State Decide It All for Me
The ritual process
Refugees and Exile
Prevalence of serious mental disorder in 7000 refugees resettled in western countries
The Relationship Between Post-Migration Stress and Psychological Disorders in Refugees and Asylum Seekers
Anxiety, depression and PTSD in asylum-seekers
How to Do a Systematic Review
The Cope inventory
Social Support
The impact of a long asylum procedure on quality of life, disability and physical health in Iraqi asylum seekers in the Netherlands
Achieving Rigor in Qualitative Analysis
Mental health implications of detaining asylum seekers
Stress, appraisal, and coping
Structure of Decision
The Making of a Refugee
Governing through Uncertainty
Flight and Exile—Uncertainty in the Context of Conflict-Induced Displacement
Trespass into the Liminal
Homo Sacer
“He Has Me Tied with the Blessed and Damned Papers”
Self-efficacy
“I Need this Chance to … Help My Family”
An expectancy-value model of emotion regulation
Silenced Knowing
A move to more systematic and transparent approaches in qualitative evidence synthesis
Felons, not Families”
Understanding waiting and wellbeing through liminal experiences of Syrian refugees
Metasynthesis
Coping in Limbo? The Moderating Role of Coping Strategies in the Relationship between Post-Migration Stress and Well-Being during the Asylum-Seeking Process
Resilience among asylum seekers living with HIV
Live and/or let die
Social support as a moderator of acculturative stress among refugees and asylum seekers
Years of Homemaking in Waiting Zones
Lost in limbo? Navigating (im)mobilities and practices of appropriation of non-deportable refugees in the Mediterranean area
Coming and going
Guantánamo
Central American immigrant workers and legal violence in Phoenix, Arizona
The power of the law
Women Asylum Seekers and Refugees
There is a hole in my Bucket, dear Liza’, dear Liza
Between heaven and hell’
User involvement and empowerment among asylum seekers in Norwegian reception centres
Resilience in liminality
Towards a Neo-cosmetic Humanitarianism
Social Technology and Refugee Encampment in Kenya
Theoretical Perspectives on Post-Migration Adaptation and Psychological Well-Being among Refugees
Teacher educators' collective professional agency and identity – Transforming marginality to strength
Through the Wire
Rethinking the Concept of a “Durable Solution”
Political life beyond accommodation and return
The Impact of Policy on Somali Refugee Women in Canada
We came to this country for the future of our children. We have no future”
Placemaking in a translocal receiving community
Contextualizing reliability and validity in qualitative research
Spatialising the refugee camp
Hunter and Prey
Citizens‐in‐Waiting, Deportees‐in‐Waiting
Qualitative inquiry and research design
Assessing coping strategies
Multidimensional assessment of coping
Incomplete Inclusion
Analysis of Factors Associated to the Enrollment and Demand of Computing-Related Careers
The Categorized and Invisible
Growing Up in the Shadows
Between outside and inside? Prison visiting rooms as liminal carceral spaces
Seeing like the stateless
Survival Voices
Liminal Lives
Learning to Be Illegal
Limbo life in Canada's waiting room
Uncontrollability and unpredictability in post-traumatic stress disorder
What Happens to Law in a Refugee Camp
Intolerable intersectional burdens
Homemaking and perpetual liminality among queer refugees
Out of Time
Being En Route
Incommensurable Futures and Displaced Lives
The Mediation of Hope
Conducting Qualitative Metasynthesis Research
No news today
In the Lowly Nowherevilles of Liquid Modernity
Between War and City
Time and the other in crisis
What's in a name? 'Refugees', 'migrants' and the politics of labelling
Identity and Agency in Emerging Adulthood
Refugees, Immigrants, and the State
The Sociology of Refugee Migration
Security and subjective wellbeing
Asserting Existence
Unstable terminality
Emotional Challenges of Undocumented Young Adults
Becoming Refugee in Cairo
Liminal Legality
What Is Agency
Health, Welfare Reform, and Narratives of Uncertainty Among Cambodian Refugees
Pre-migration Trauma and Post-migration Stressors for Asian and Latino American Immigrants
The Short-Term Impact of Involuntary Migration in China's Three Gorges
| Unique citing works | 41 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 10,25 |
| Citation span | 2022 - 2026 (5) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 40 |