Still alive : notes from Australia's immigration detention system / Safdar Ahmed.

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unmediated

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volume

ISBN:

9780980593730
0980593735

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DDC classification:

741.5994
325.21/0994

Summary: "Still Alive" documents the conditions, experiences and deprivations of Australia's system of mandatory and indefinite detention for asylum seekers and refugees. Drawing from Safdar Ahmed's experiences as a volunteer in Sydney's Villawood detention centre, it contains the testimony of refugees and workers in a system that is often decried by human rights organisations for its cruelty. This is a work of observation and collaboration, collating Ahmed's experiences as an art workshop facilitator with the testimony and artwork of refugees who are held in immigration detention. "Still Alive" eschews stereotypical representations of the refugee as either a threat to Australia's system of 'border protection', or as a victim who lacks initiative and agency. What emerges is a deeply impacting account of the refugee journey and the profound consequences of indefinite incarceration that asylum seekers experience upon reaching Australia.

Holdings
Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Junior Fiction	Bayview	741.5994 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Processing
Graphic Fiction	Dee Why Library	GF AHME (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		R09307XSLGD

"Part of this book was first published online by GetUp! in 2015 as Villawood: notes from an immigration detention centre" -- Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references.

"Still Alive" documents the conditions, experiences and deprivations of Australia's system of mandatory and indefinite detention for asylum seekers and refugees. Drawing from Safdar Ahmed's experiences as a volunteer in Sydney's Villawood detention centre, it contains the testimony of refugees and workers in a system that is often decried by human rights organisations for its cruelty. This is a work of observation and collaboration, collating Ahmed's experiences as an art workshop facilitator with the testimony and artwork of refugees who are held in immigration detention. "Still Alive" eschews stereotypical representations of the refugee as either a threat to Australia's system of 'border protection', or as a victim who lacks initiative and agency. What emerges is a deeply impacting account of the refugee journey and the profound consequences of indefinite incarceration that asylum seekers experience upon reaching Australia.

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