Abstract
This chapter analyzes the internal border spaces that materialize in asylum centers, which accommodate people as they await the decision about their application for asylum in Norway. Intended for temporary use and inhabitation, these asylum centers are often characterized by low standards and cramped accommodation. Accordingly, they also reflect the transnational politics of mobility governance, where people are kept “on hold” due to a dual normativity of arrival, where people are supposed to prepare simultaneously for both settlement and return. Focusing on the everyday practices and experiences of asylum seekers, the chapter compares the two main types of accommodation, centralized and decentralized, asking whether decentralized forms of accommodation can operate less as internal border spaces, thus potentially generating other senses of arrival and future becoming.
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