System (2021)

• 68%
• 2021
• Cian Geoghegan

When Direct Provision was first introduced in Ireland, an asylum seeker was supposed to await approval of their claim for a period of no more than six months. Jerome lived in Direct Provision for eight years while his claim was being processed. Through moving personal testimony, former asylum seeker Jerome illustrates the precarity, anxiety and frustration behind daily life in the Direct Provision system. He outlines the feeling of being stranded or forgotten by the system, as basic human decency was denied to him.