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Winning stories from the 'Australia is Refugees' competition Available by contacing info@australiansagainstracism. $12 per copy. All the highly commended stories and essays will be released in a publication sometime in 2003.
Peter Mares. Borderline: Australia's response to refugees and asylum seekers in the wake of the Tampa. UNSW Press, unswpress.com.au, 2nd ed, 2002.
Mary Crock and Ben Saul. Future Seekers: Refugees and the Law in Australia. Federation Press, federationpress.com.au, 2002.
Morris Gleitzman. Boy Overboard Penguin 2002 (especially for younger readers).
Mungo McCallum. Quarterly Essay 5: Girt by Sea: Australia, the refugees and the politics of fear. 2002.
David Marr and Marian Wilkinson, Dark Victory. ALLEN & UNWIN 2003
Heather Tyler, Asylum: Voices Behind the Razor Wire, Lothian Books, 2003
Will Davies and Andrea Dal Bosco, Tales From a Suitcase; the Afghan Experience Lothian Books, 2002
From Nothing to Zero; Letters from Refugees in Australia’s Detention Centres with preface and chapter introductions by Julian Burnside QC. LONELY PLANET PUBLICATIONS, 2003
Another Country: writers in detention, edited by Rosie Scott and Tom Keneally. "Listening to these voices is like looking into a mirror. They come not from strangers but from men and women who are already fellow citizens, close and clearly recognisable, of the same world we live in." - David Malouf. Publisher: Sydney PEN and Halstead Press. Info & Order
David Corlett Following Them Home. Stories of the Asylum Seekers Australia Sent Back In mid-2004, David Corlett travelled to meet asylum seekers whom Australia had returned to Iran, Pakistan and Afghanistan. His intention was to witness first-hand the circumstances into which Australia returns people it deems not to need protection. This is the story of that expedition. In a series of vivid travelogue-style accounts and personal stories, Corlett charts the tide of contemporary history and how the Western world can treat those adrift in it. $24.95 - ISBN 097 507 6965 - Black Inc Agenda July 2005
Anthem is a dramatic, intimate witness to people's lives caught up in the transformation of the world in the 21st Century. From the plight of asylum seekers in Australia, to the frontline of the War On Terror in Afghanistan, US, and Iraq, filmmakers Emmy Award-winning Tahir Cambis and Helen Newman take us on a three year personal odyssey to chronicle the human rights struggles of our times. An epic journey of the heart and mind, Anthem is ultimately a provocative meditation on the nature of freedom.
http://www.anthemmovie.com
Klaus Neumann, Refuge Australia: Australia's Humanitarian Record, UNSW Press, 2004. Debunks several commonly held assumptions about Australia’s humanitarian record. It demonstrates that Australian responses to various international refugee crises from the 1930s to the early 1970s were informed by self-interest rather than humanitarian concerns. It shows that Australia’s support for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and the 1951 Refugees Convention was often at best half-hearted.
Eva Sallis, Mahjar, Allen and Unwin, 2003. Vibrating with life and woven with evocative Arabic fables, these stories are about the differences between Lebanese and Australian culture: between parents and children, new lives and old. With warmth, humour and insight, Sallis's eloquent prose captures the pain as well as the joys of living in a new land.
Eva Sallis, The Marsh Birds, Allen and Unwin, 2005. This is the story of Dhurgham, a young Iraqi who has lost everything. A powerful, exquisitely written novel that gives a human face to the experiences of exile and migration.
Caroline Moorehead, Human cargo: a journey among refugees, Chatto & Windus, 2005. Moorehead, a human rights journalist, refugee aid worker and biographer of Martha Gellhorn, tours a number of refugee milieus, visiting, among others, Liberian refugees in Cairo, Mexican migrants waiting to cross into the United States, Mideastern refugees detained in Australian internment camps and Palestinian refugees still nursing hopes of returning to a homeland they have never seen. She finds that refugees who remain in the Third World—the majority—are preoccupied with the struggle for survival. Those who make it to Western countries face an equally daunting task, caught in a legal limbo between asylum and deportation, forbidden to work, grappling with a strange language, loneliness and a society that views them as alien interlopers.
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