Jacqui O’Riordan is a lecturer at the School of Applied Social Studies, University Collge Cork, where she works across a broad range of adult education, undergraduate and postgraduate programmes. Her research interests embody the activist and academic and focus on a range of issues concerning gender, equality and diversity in local and global contexts. Her research contributions include analyses of aspects of women’s livehihoods; child trafficking; care for children; migrant children’s experiences and interactions of education; community supports for people, younger and older, living with disabilities; as well as the analysis of care and experiences of carers. She is a co–founder of Anti-Deportation Ireland, and has had involvement with migrant and asylum–seeking communities since the 1990s. Mike FitzGibbon has a background in engineering and in information systems, and began work in development in the early 1990s, later working at the International Famine Centre in UCC and the Higher Education Equality Unit until 2002, working as a development consultant until 2005. Since then, he has lectured on and been a part of the development of the UCC International Development undergraduate degree programme; a joint MSc in Rural Development with universities in Ethiopia; and on UCC’s Masters in Food Security Management programme. He has always had a strong interest in ethics, human rights and development issues, particularly in relation marginalised groups. For the past two decades, he has had a deep involvement with the asylum-seeking and immigrant communities, and help to found Anti-Deportation Ireland, a local movement working with asylum-seekers.

• Jacqui O’Riordan: Introduction: The Uncaring State – Part I Structures and Policy on Asylum in the Irish State – Piaras Mac Éinrí: Concepts of Asylum and Refugee Status: Irish Approaches to Date – Claire Dorrity: State Security versus Human Security: Asylum Policy and Its Discontents – Michael Blaney: Who’s Afraid of the Irish State? – Joe Moore: Activist Beginnings: Local and National Campaigns and Initiatives – Daniel Delaney and Megan Killian: The McMahon Working Group – Part II Challenging Institutions: Activist Perspectives – Joe Moore: Racisms, State Racism and Resistance – Lucky Khambule: The Power of Organizing from Within: Lucky’s Life and Journey in Direct Provision and KRAC Protest – Florence Eriamiantoe: My Experience of Living in Direct Provision – Gertrude Cotter: Beyond Ribbon Cutting: A Personal Reflection – Tess O: The Liberation Protest – Part III Childhoods Lived in Direct Provision: Providing Alternative Spaces and Places Where Children Are Enabled to Flourish – Annie Cummins: Children without Childhoods: The Experiences of Children in Direct Provision in Ireland – Nomaxabixo Princess Maye: The Nature and Consequences of Institutionalizing Families – Temmy A: My Journey into Direct Provision – Jacqui O’Riordan, Deirdre Horgan and Shirley Martin: Children’s Play in a Hostile Environment – Kaffy: Controlled: Raising Children and Living under Surveillance – Naomi Masheti: The Psychosocial Wellbeing of Asylum Seeking Children Living in Direct Provision Centres in Ireland – Part IV Women and Men as Gendered Adults Living in Direct Provision – Ciara Burke: Women’s Migratory Journeys: Hope and Pain – From Home to DP to Home Again – Amin Sharifi Isaloo: Liminality in the Direct Provisional System: Living under Extreme Rules and Conditions – Dominic Hewson: ‘Being Made Different’: Inactivity, Dependency and Emasculation in Direct Provision – Keelin Barry: Invisible: Disabled Child and Adult Asylum Seekers Living in Direct Provision – Caroline Muthoni Munyi: Struggles of Living in Direct Provision – Ellen, Jessie Nswazi, Natalie: Leaving, Arriving, Beginning: Residents’ Stories of Coming – Joe Moore: Living under the Threat of Deportation: Activist Counter-Deportation Strategies in a Changing Environment – Vukasin Nedeljkovic: Direct Provision Diary 2007–2009 – Melanie Marks and Hassan Ali Hassan: Resisting: Poems – Part V Realizing Human and Social Potential: Initiatives, Experiences, Resistances – Niyi Kolawole: From Seeking Asylum to Serving Knowledge: The Journey of an Asylum Seeker in Ireland – Pako Mokobo: My Journey through Higher Education: A Struggle for Self-Improvement to Contribute to Irish Society – Mike FitzGibbon: Becoming a University of Sanctuary: Making UCC a Welcome Place for Asylum Seekers – Graham Clifford, Yolanda Mhene and Justine Looney: The Sanctuary Runner Stories – Vera Stojanovic: Ordinary – Joe Moore: Anti-Deportation Ireland: Emergence, Growth and Actions – Angela Veale, Sarah Robinson, Naomi Masheti, and Barbara Tint: Applied Improvisation and Visual Methodologies in Priority Identification with Asylum Seeker Women in Direct Provision – Kathy D’Arcy: The Journey to Me: Exploring Identity and Belonging through Creativity with Children Living in Direct Provision in Cork – Fiona Kearney and Tadhg Crowley: Creative Agency: Enabling Cultural Participation for Young Asylum Seekers, Refugees and Migrants in a Museum Context – Mike FitzGibbon: Conclusions: Reduction, Repression, Reaction, Resistance – Index.