Refugee Lives in the Archives: A Pacific Imaginary

by Gillian Whitlock

This book introduces the unique archive of letters, textiles, hand-drawn maps, emails and photographs from asylum seekers held indefinitely in offshore detention at Topside Camp, Nauru 2001-5. These artefacts introduce the distinctive and creative forms of resistance produced by asylum seekers in the remote Pacific camps on Nauru and Manus Island, and they expose their experiential histories of radical suffering and trauma. Paying due deference...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1350279986
• ISBN13: 9781350279988
• Release Date: August 2024
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 184 Pages
• Weight: 0.96 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"