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y separately published work icon Asylum : Voices From Behind the Razor Wire anthology   autobiography  
Issue Details: First known date: 2003... 2003 Asylum : Voices From Behind the Razor Wire
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Heather Tyler's chapters incorporate letters, diary entries, and interview material from asylum seekers being held in mandatory detention in Australia; the majority of whom were held at the Villawood Detention Centre in Sydney.

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Notes

  • Contents indexed selectively.
  • Dedication: To the asylum seekers -- people just like us.
  • Epigraph: There is no greater sorrow on earth than the loss of one's native land. -- Euripides, 431 BC.

Contents

* Contents derived from the South Melbourne, South Melbourne - Port Melbourne area, Melbourne - Inner South, Melbourne, Victoria,:Lothian , 2003 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
Voice of Consciencei"If one person dies,", Mohsen Soltany-Zand , single work poetry (p. 237)
Note: Editor's note: 'June 2002, his 41st month of detention.'

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • South Melbourne, South Melbourne - Port Melbourne area, Melbourne - Inner South, Melbourne, Victoria,: Lothian , 2003 .
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      Extent: xvii, 238p.p.
      Note/s:
      • Foreword by Julian Burnside.
      ISBN: 0734405367

Works about this Work

Tragic Stories of Asylum-Seekers 2003 single work review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 5 April 2003; (p. 12)

— Review of Asylum : Voices From Behind the Razor Wire 2003 anthology autobiography
Non-Fiction Steven Carroll , 2003 single work review
— Appears in: The Age , 22 March 2003; (p. 5)

— Review of Wisdom Man Banjo Clarke , Camilla Chance , 2003 single work autobiography ; Asylum : Voices From Behind the Razor Wire 2003 anthology autobiography
Non-Fiction Steven Carroll , 2003 single work review
— Appears in: The Age , 22 March 2003; (p. 5)

— Review of Wisdom Man Banjo Clarke , Camilla Chance , 2003 single work autobiography ; Asylum : Voices From Behind the Razor Wire 2003 anthology autobiography
Tragic Stories of Asylum-Seekers 2003 single work review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 5 April 2003; (p. 12)

— Review of Asylum : Voices From Behind the Razor Wire 2003 anthology autobiography
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