Maley-Hazaras-Opinion-Updated From Prof. William Maley
Think Piece Ethics of Asylum September 2011 From St James Ethics Centre
Australian attitudes to the acceptance of refugees From the Refugee Council of Australia March 2010
Ten things IDC research found about immigration detention From the International Detention Coalition & La Trobe Refugee Research Centre 2011
Statistics at a Glance From the Refugee Council of Australia, December 2009
Asylum seekers and refugees from the Australian Human Rights Commission, 2012
Misapprehensions not facts, drive our dysfuntional asylum seeker debate – by Mike Steketee The Australian, August 2011
Refugee Action Coalition fact sheets : dealing with many important issues
Road to Refuge – an excellent educational website
Lest we forget Julian Burnside QC, The Drum, August 2011
Kon Karapanaiotis message From the CEO & Founder of the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre
What to do From the Blue Mountains Refugee Support Group
The hypocrisy of stopping the boats From Vince of the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre, Nov 2011
Myths about refugees and asylum seekers
Amnesty 1 Rethink refugees – myths
Amnesty 2 Facts about refugees
The Refugee Council of Australia website has some information about myths about refugees and asylum seekers, including email hoaxes, Feb 2011
The Safecom website explains who refugees are and the difference between them and migrants.
The Canberra Refugee Action Committee has a good reading list.
Further Reading:
AFGHANISTAN
- The Rugmaker of Mazar-e-Sharif by Najaf Mazari and Robert Hillman
ISBN 978-0-980757, Wild Dingo Press
- The Honey Thief by Najaf Mazari and Robert Hillman
ISBN: 9780980757040, Wild Dingo Press
- The Swallows of Kabul byYasmina Khadra
ISBN: 0-099-46602-3, Vintage Publishing
- The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
ISBN: 0747573395, Bloomsbury
- A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
ISBN: 0747593779, Bloomsbury
- Winter in Kabul: Life without Peace in Afghanistan by Ann Jones
ISBN 0-8050-7884-3, Henry Holt and Co
- From Under a Leaky Roof: Afghan Refugees in Australia by Phil Sparrow
ISBN: 1 92106 436 6, Freemantle Arts Centre Press
- The Bookseller of Kabul by Asne Seierstad
ISBN: 1-84608 047 1, Virago
- The Places in Between by Rory Stewart
ISBN: 978-0-15-603156-1, Harcourt Inc
- Parvana by Deborah Ellis
ISBN: 9781865086941, Allen and Unwin
- Parvana’s Journey by Deborah Ellis
ISBN: 9781865089997, Allen and Unwin
- Tales from a Suitcase by Will Davies
ISBN: 9780734402370, Lothian
- Dressmaker of Khahikhna by Gayle Lemmon
ISBN: 978184854557, John Murray
- The Case for Withdrawal from Afghanistan by Nick Turse (ed)
ISBN: 9781844674510, Verso
- Kabul Beauty School: An American Woman Goes Behind the Veil by Deborah Rodriguez
ISBN: 9780733623080, Hachette
- Burqa and a Hard Place by Sally Cooper
ISBN: 9781405038591, Macmillan
- Three Women of Herat by Veronica Doubleday
ISBN: 978184110260, Tauris
BURMA
- From The Land of the Green Ghosts by Pascal Khoo Thwe
ISBN: 0-06-050523-0, Harper Collins
EAST TIMOR
- A Dirty Little War by John Martinkus
ISBN: 1-74051-016-X, Random House
- Step By Step: Women of East Timor by Jude Conway
ISBN: 9781921576096, Charles Darwin University Press
- Resistance by Naldo Rei
ISBN: 9780702236327, University of Queensland Press
IRAN
- An Iranian Odyssey by Gohar Kordi
ISBN: 1852422130, Serpent’s Tail
- Journey from the Land of No by Roya Hakakian
ISBN: 1400046114, Crown
IRAQ
- The Weight of a Mustard Seed by Wendell Steavenson
ISBN: 978-1-921520-06-8, Text Publishing Melbourne
- I Lost my Love in Baghdad by Michael Hastings
ISBN: 9780522854930, Melbourne University Press
- Children of War by Deborah Ellis
ISBN: 9781742371146, Allen and Unwin
- Love in a Torn Land by Jean Sasson
ISBN: 9786553818147, Bantam
- History of Iraq by Charles Tripp
ISBN: 9780521702478, Cambridge University Press
- Fuel on Fire by Greg Mutti
ISBN: 9781847921116, Bodley Head
LEBANON
- Hezbollah by Judith Palmer Harik
ISBN: 1-84511-024-2, I.B. Taurus Publishing
- Beirut Blues by Hanan Al – Shaykh
ISBN: 0385473826, Anchor
- Women of Sand and Myrrh by Hanan Al – Shaykh
ISBN: 0385423586, Anchor
MIDDLE EAST
- The Great War for Civilisation: The Conquest of the Middle East by Robert Fisk
ISBN: 9781841150086, Harper Collins
- Infernal Triangle by Paul McGeough
ISBN: 9781742375632, Allen and Unwin
MUSLIM HEARTLAND
- The World from Islam by George Negus
ISBN: 0-7322-7623, Harper Collins
PALESTINE
- Arafat by Said K. Aburish
ISBN: 0-7475-3629-5, Bloomsbury
- Kill Khalid by Paul McGeough
ISBN: 978-1-74175-600-5, Allen & Unwin
- I Shall Not Hate by Izzeldin Abuelaish
ISBN: 140881367X, Bloomsbury
- Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine by Ilan Pappe
ISBN: 9781851684670, One World
SAUDI ARABIA
- Blood & Sand by Frank Gardner
ISBN: 0-593-05699-X, Bantam Press
SRI LANKA
- Tamil Tigress: My Story as a Child Soldier in Sri Lanka’s Bloody Civil War by Niromi de Soyza
ISBN: 1742375189, Allen and Unwin
- The Cage: The Fight for Sri Lanka and the Last Days of the Tamil Tigers by Gordon Weiss
ISBN: 1487921396, Bodley Head
VIETNAM
- The Happiest Refugee by Anh Do
ISBN: 978-1-74237-238-9, Allen and Unwin
ALSO OF INTEREST
- Dark Dreams: Australian Refugee Stories by Sonja Dechian, Heather Millar and Eva Sallis (eds)
ISBN: 9781862546295, Wakefield Press
- The Pacific Solution by Susan Metcalfe
ISBN: 978 1 921509 94 0, Australian Scholarly Publishing
- Compassionate Bastard by Peter Mitchell
ISBN: 0143566229, Penguin
- Dark Victory by David Marr and Marian Wilkinson
ISBN: 9781741144475, Allen and Unwin
- Tampering with Asylum: A Universal Humanitarian Problem by Frank Brennan
ISBN: 9780702234163, University of Queensland Press
- Walk in My Shoes by Alwyn Evans
ISBN: 9780143002314, Penguin
- A Certain Maritime Incident by Tony Kevin
ISBN: 9781920469215, Scribe
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