ABSTRACT
From a theoretical point of view there are three distinct ways of conceptualising this type of predicament: as a transitional state through which people move on their return journey to an achieved and settled form of personhood; as an occasional state to which people who have made the journey back to an achieved form of personhood periodically return; and as a continuous predicament or struggle within which we can detect variations and possibilities for movement but which those who find themselves in it cannot properly be said to leave. With one exception it is this last category which most adequately identifies the type of predicament in which our participants found themselves and in this chapter and the next we shall explore some of the variations in the continuity of their struggles.
