This article considers the duration and meaning of insecurity—as it is experienced over the course of a life and moves over borders—through the narrative of a Palestinian woman from Shatila now seeking asylum in Belgium. Structured around one person’s account of the asylum process, it considers what a singular case can reveal about a collective migrant condition, the inconstant line separating secure from insecure states, and the reconstitution of a secure self in conditions of chronic uncertainty.

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漫漫长路：比利时的一个巴勒斯坦难民

本文考虑了不安全感的持续时间和含义，这种不安全感在一生中经历并越过边界时，是通过一名来自Shatila的巴勒斯坦妇女的叙述而发生的，该妇女现在正在比利时寻求庇护。它围绕一个人对庇护过程的描述而构架，它考虑了关于集体移民状况，将安全与不安全国家分开的不稳定路线以及在长期不确定性条件下重建安全自我的单一案例所能揭示的情况。