Chapter 9: Trust and dependence

Being an asylum seeker is an isolating experience, but the bare minimum to survive requires dependence on other asylum seekers and foreigners, strangers, NGOs, and volunteers. For the narrators stuck in this bureaucratic limbo, whether they were in detention or outside waiting for their application to be processed, dependence was a necessity although it did not translate into trust. This is because the competitive nature and high risks of being an asylum seeker make it difficult to establish ...