ABSTRACT
This chapter examines how the cash allowance system permeates asylum seekers' everyday lives in intimate ways. It explains that cash allowance system puts into motion a range of mechanisms that construct a relationship of dependency between the Danish State and the asylum seeker, exacerbate and deepen asylum seekers' financial vulnerability, and shape their spatiality. The chapter explains how 'the everyday' as an analytic enables us to reveal the ordinary and intimate dimensions of migration management practices, such as the cash allowance system. It presents a brief overview of the Danish cash allowance system to illustrate its mundane technicalities. By paying attention to the mundane and often neglected aspects of asylum seekers' lives, the chapter makes visible the intimate nature of the cash allowance system and highlights the deeply felt experiences and daily frustrations with this system. It also illustrates how the woefully inadequate amount of money asylum seekers receive places them in a financially vulnerable situation.
