ABSTRACT
This chapter presents and reflects on the increasingly harsh conditions of the contemporary yet historically founded Swedish asylum context. Drawing on previous research and concepts such as deportability, it describes the progressively stricter laws and rhetoric that have forced people seeking asylum into various types of conditioned existences – as people with temporary residency, asylum-seekers, irregularised or criminalised, and placed in detention centres. In doing so, the chapter provides an outline of the context in which the research participants first handed in their asylum claims, lived, thought, and acted in relation to a more or less realistic belief in a secured future.
