Description: This book combines historical and geographical analysis of the direct provision asylum system with a theoretical analysis of the disavowal of the system by state and society and first-person narrative of the lived experience.
Brief description: Vukasin Nedeljkovic is a freelance researcher who has initiated the multidisciplinary project Asylum Archive. He has a Masters in Visual Arts Practice from the Dun Laoghaire Institute of Arts, Design and Technology and is a PhD candidate at the Dublin Institute of Technology. He exhibited Asylum Archive both nationally and internationally. His recent publications include 'Reiterating Asylum Archive: Documenting direct provision in Ireland' (2018) and 'Asylum Archive: An archive of Asylum and Direct Provision in Ireland' (2016, 2017). He was recently awarded an Arts and Activism bursary from the Irish Arts Council and is currently working on a publication based on Asylum Archive as part of the bursary.