Desert Sorrow: Asylum Seekers at WoomeraAustralia has in recent years implemented harsh measures on refugees and asylum seekers. This book gives an extraordinary and important insight into the secret daily life behind the wire of detention centres. |
Contents
TIME OUT FROM WOOMERA | 31 |
OVERLOAD AT WOOMERA | 85 |
A FLAWED PROCESS AND LENGTHY DELAYS | 132 |
A BETTER WAY? | 151 |
WOOMERA CLOSES | 194 |
Common terms and phrases
Adelaide adults Afghanis Afghanistan applications Arabic Aref arrived Ashmore Reef assistant asylum seekers Aziz Bijan boat brother Christian classroom computer centre Department of Immigration detainees DIMIA Dr Amir English classes Farsi father fear Federal Court fence Government Hassan Hazara hope Human Rights hunger strike IDAG Immigration Detention Indonesia Inese interview Iran Iranians Iraq Iraqi IRPC Islamic Jalil Jeremy Moore keen later living looking main compound manager mandatory detention Mandeans Margota Mike compound months Muslim Nations November compound organised Pakistan persecution Philip Ruddock processing programs razor wire Refugee Convention Refugee Review Tribunal refugee status rejected released response riots Sabian Sabian Mandeans Sadiq Sarwar security officers self-harm Shahin Shiite smuggler South Australia spoke staff stay story Taliban talked teachers teaching temporary protection visas unaccompanied minors weeks wife women Woomera centre Woomera detention centre Woomera IRPC