A stage of limbo: A meta‐synthesis of refugees' liminality

Hartonen, Ville R.; Väisänen, Pertti; Karlsson, Liisa; Pöllänen, Sinikka

doi:10.1111/apps.12349

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“…This lack of (real and perceived) control is not only a psychosocial element of ontological insecurity, but a SDH in its own right [ 15 ]. Indeed, ontological insecurity is a key element in asylum seeker and refugee negotiations of agency and control, leading to “the oxymoron of being ‘safe in uncertainty”’ [ 71 ].…”

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Housing and health for people from refugee and asylum-seeking backgrounds: findings from an Australian qualitative longitudinal study

Ziersch,

Walsh,

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2024

BMC Public Health

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Background For people from asylum-seeking and refugee backgrounds, housing and the re-establishment of home are key social determinants of health. Research highlights the inequities faced by asylum seekers and refugees in the housing markets of high-income resettlement countries, resulting in their overrepresentation in precarious housing. There is also emerging evidence of the relationship between housing and health for this population relating to lack of affordability, insecurity of tenure, and poor suitability (physical and social). The mechanisms by which housing impacts health for this group within these housing contexts, is however, understudied - especially overtime. This qualitative longitudinal study aimed to address this gap. Methods Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 25 people from asylum-seeking and refugee backgrounds in South Australia, recruited through a community survey. Thematic analysis of interview data across three time points over three years identified four material and psychosocial mechanisms through which housing contributed to health outcomes via psychological and physical stressors - physical environment; stability; safety; and social connections, support and services. The study also identified additional health promoting resources, particularly elements of ontological security. The dynamics of these indirect and direct mechanisms were further illuminated by considering the impact of international, national and local contexts and a range of intersecting social factors including gender, country/culture of origin, family circumstances, immigration status, language skills, income, and health status. Conclusions Rebuilding a sense of home and ontological security is a key resettlement priority and crucial for wellbeing. More comprehensive strategies to facilitate this for refugees and asylum seekers are required.

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Housing and health for people from refugee and asylum-seeking backgrounds: findings from an Australian qualitative longitudinal study

Ziersch,

Walsh,

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2024

BMC Public Health

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“…We also observe that liminality research has burgeoned in several other fields, especially where 'boundary processes' are considered fundamental to scenes of transformation or 'becoming' [7,9,21,[26][27][28][29][30], including research on lifespan transitions, such as migration, mourning, new parenthood, changes of residence or career, passage from school to college, etc. [31][32][33][34][35][36][37][38]. [39] and Little et al [1] It is important to note an early use of liminality in the field of health research prior to 1998 by Frankenberg [39].…”

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A Theoretically Informed Critical Review of Research Applying the Concept of Liminality to Understand Experiences with Cancer: Implications for a New Oncological Agenda in Health Psychology

Stenner

Picione

2023

IJERPH

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Liminality was described more than 20 years ago as a major category explaining how cancer is experienced. Since then, it has been widely used in the field of oncology research, particularly by those using qualitative methods to study patient experience. This body of work has great potential to illuminate the subjective dimensions of life and death with cancer. However, the review also reveals a tendency for sporadic and opportunistic applications of the concept of liminality. Rather than being developed in a systematic way, liminality theory is being recurrently ‘re-discovered’ in relatively isolated studies, mostly within the realm of qualitative studies of ‘patient experience’. This limits the capacity of this approach to influence oncological theory and practice. In providing a theoretically informed critical review of liminality literature in the field of oncology, this paper proposes ways of systematizing liminality research in line with a processual ontology. In so doing, it argues for a closer engagement with the source theory and data, and with more recent liminality theory, and it sketches the broad epistemological consequences and applications.

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“…By recognising these barriers, it is possible to further develop mechanisms that support asylum seekers' well-being, agency, and social integration. This article is a part of a larger research effort aiming to describe how liminality affects asylum seekers' subjective well-being (Hartonen et al, 2021), agency (Hartonen et al, 2022), and participation in pre-integrational education. After introducing one engaged learning project (KOTO project, see background), arranged educative workshops (KOTO sessions, see background) and their brief outcomes (see results), the article focuses more specifically on reporting findings of asylum seekers' (n = 181) participatory barriers in this project.…”

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Asylum seekers’ experiences of participatory barriers in the educative pre-integrational programmes

Hartonen

Pöllänen

Karlsson

et al. 2023

European Educational Research Journal

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How a society supports its most vulnerable individuals can serve as a barometer of social inclusion. By engaging in previous debates on how the influx and resettlement of refugees and asylum seekers challenge European educational spaces, this study investigates asylum seekers’ non-engagement and non-participation in one engaged learning project in Finland (the KOTO project – Kotoutuminen taidolla ja taiteella [Integration through Arts and Skills]). A mixed methods approach with convergent design was adopted for the study, which combines qualitative data on asylum seekers’ attributions of their participatory barriers with quantitative data on the relationship between asylum seekers’ demographics and the quantified data on their participatory barriers. The study illuminates how asylum seekers’ liminality, along with the project-based barriers, generates non-engagement and non-participation in the educative pre-integrational programmes in a reception centre context.

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A stage of limbo: A meta‐synthesis of refugees' liminality

Cited by 18 publications

References 119 publications

Housing and health for people from refugee and asylum-seeking backgrounds: findings from an Australian qualitative longitudinal study

Housing and health for people from refugee and asylum-seeking backgrounds: findings from an Australian qualitative longitudinal study

A Theoretically Informed Critical Review of Research Applying the Concept of Liminality to Understand Experiences with Cancer: Implications for a New Oncological Agenda in Health Psychology

Asylum seekers’ experiences of participatory barriers in the educative pre-integrational programmes

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