Seeking Asylum

Name: Seeking Asylum
Brand: Penguin Random House NZ
SKU: 9781760643300
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Our Stories

By Asylum Seeker Resource Centre

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Seeking Asylum offers an insightful exploration of the experiences of asylum seekers through the lens of the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre. Presenting firsthand accounts and expert insights, the book delves into the challenges faced by those seeking refuge and highlights the systemic issues within current immigration policies around the world. It strives to illuminate the human stories behind the often dehumanised statistics and political rhetoric.
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Seeking Asylum

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The voices Australia should hear

100% of the proceeds from this title will go to the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre.

This beautifully illustrated hardback captures the stories of those who have lived the experience of seeking asylum. In their own voices, contributors share how they came to be in Australia, and explore diverse aspects of their lives—growing up in a refugee camp, studying for a PhD, changing attitudes through soccer, being a Muslim in a small country town, campaigning against racism, surviving detention, holding onto culture, dreaming of being reunited with family.

There are stories of love, pain, injustice, achievement and everything in between. Accompanied by beautiful portrait photographs, they show the depth and diversity of people's experience and trace the impact of Australia's immigration policies.

Seeking Asylum also includes a foreword by Liliana Maria and an essay by Abdul Karim Hekmat on the human, social, and political impact of Australia’s treatment of people seeking asylum over the last fifty years. With an afterword by Kon Karapanagiotidis and supporting material demystifying Australia's current policies from Julian Burnside, Seeking Asylum redefines assumptions about people who have sought asylum and inspires readers to take action to create a more welcoming Australia.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781760643300

Publisher: Black Inc.

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 27 November 2021

Country: Australia

Imprint: Black Inc.

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 21.0mm

Width: 223.0mm

Height: 287.0mm

Weight: 1084g

Pages: 176

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Asylum Seeker Resource Centre Education & Reference Non-Fiction Penguin Books Politics & Current Affairs

About the Author

The Asylum Seeker Resource Centre is Australia's largest independent nonprofit supporting people seeking asylum and refugees. 100% of the proceeds of Seeking Asylum- Our Stories will be reinvested by the ASRC to fund projects that build people's capacity to tell their story in their own way and provide opportunities to amplify their voices. One area of investment will continue to be the ASRC's Community Advocacy and Power Program (CAPP). The CAPP training program, offered nationally, provides participants with skills in advocacy, community organising / mobilising, public speaking and effective media engagement.