Living Together through the Asylum Process: Affective Proximity in Home Accommodation of Asylum Seekers

This article examines the home accommodation of asylum seekers in Finland from perspective hosts’ affective experiences living through process proximity. study contributes to research on dimension pro-asylum solidarity beyond framework compassion. Instead being observers distant suffering, hosts are personally affected by seekers’ past involving war and conflict their present struggle for asylum, which inseparably intertwined. As a result, homes domestic lives transformed. The boundaries between faraway events blur when daily life includes technology-mediated connections war. Affective proximity struggles may cause an emotional burden hosts, can also be politicising. Living together often leads shared mission fighting right remain increased awareness political question asylum.