Abstract

In this paper, it is argued that the analysis of the experience of exile and asylum should be located on a double axis of presence and absence, as well as in the medium of time, both in its quantitative and qualitative aspects. The point of departure for the analysis is a rejection of the integration problematic prevailing in the sociology of migration, employing in its stead the perspective of the relationship of otherness as a heuristic device. The paper draws upon textual material generated by narrative interviews with asylum holders from Eritrea, Iran and Afghanistan presently living in the city of Nuremberg in south Germany.

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