Day3 : In
the last 3 days we've been meeting/interviewing about
20 people (Mehdi, Jenabi, Mohsen, Hakimi from Iran, Moussa
, Muslin from Tchechenia, ...)  as
well as staff members (Anne,
Isabelle, Bart, Judith ...) There are always heavy
backgrounds behind asylum seekers' lives. War, civil war,
insecurity, fear, threats, all major reasons to flee your
own land, quit your job, leave family, friends and home
behind you .
Career prospects are again left behind. The father of
an Iranian family, Hakimi., in his fifties, droped his
passion for architecture. That was part of the price to
pay to give his family a chance to survive.But
the real focus of our research was actually to caracterize
the life and state of mind of people actually living in
this reception center. What is it like to be an asylum
seeker in Europe ? Step by step, we carefully interviewed
people  with
different geographical and social background, thanks to
the help of dedicated staff members, trying to identify
common experiences, systematic patterns
to finally elaborate a concept that would be symptomatic
of the life of all asylum seekers in the West. A core
concept. A central concept arised progressively, summing
up all the frustrations and impotences experienced by
asylum seekers : SUSPENSION.
Suspension of one's social status, belief system, access
to money, political status, nationality, work, career,
education, wealth, culture, music, food, roots, home,
family, sense of belonging, geographic climatic natural
environment, control of one's destiny.
 
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