Refugees & Asylum Seekers

Federation Library REFUGEES & ASYLUM SEEKERS Resources a vailable for loan May 2014

REFUGEES – THEIR STORIES The happiest refugee by Anh Do. Crows Nest, NSW: Allen & Unwin, 2010. B DOA AIR! Australia IS refugees: winning essays and stories, 2002 edited by Eva Sallis and Heather Anh Do’s “family came close to losing their lives on Millar. North Fitzroy, Vic.: Australians Against the sea as they escaped from war-torn Vietnam in an overcrowded boat ... [This book] tells the Racism, 2002. 325.21 WIN incredible, uplifting and inspiring life story of one of “This project asked children and young adults to find someone our favourite personalities.” – Inside front cover. who came to Australia as a refugee and listen to their story. Then they had to imagine it, and in a sense make it their own Lives in limbo: voices of refugees under by writing it.” (p. 3). Half of the stories were written by students temporary protection by Michael Leach and in years 6-7, the other half by students in years 10-12. Fethi Mansouri. Sydney: UNSW Press, 2004. 325.21 LEA The bitter shore by Jacquie Everitt. Sydney: Pan Macmillan Australia, 2008. 362.87 EVE Thirty-five refugees, all temporary protection visa (TPV) holders, and mostly from Iraq and Afghanistan, talk This is an account of an Iranian family’s flight from about their quest for asylum in Australia, providing almost certain death in their homeland. Their horrific poignant details of persecution in their home country, their time in Woomera Detention Centre was to lead to a journey to Australia, prolonged periods of mandatory detention court case against the Howard government. and more. Border stories: an awareness campaign by Our stories our lives by recently Médecins Sans Frontières on the world's arrived refugee students at Doonside refugees and displaced persons, October- Technology High School; edited by November 2002. Sydney: Médecins Sans Mark Goudkamp. [Sydney]: Shining Frontières, 2002. 325.21 BOR Press for Doonside Technology HS, This guide, for both primary and secondary teachers, includes 2012. 325.21 OUR advice on answering difficult questions and avoiding "Most of Doonside Technology High School's refugee students stereotypes as well ideas for student projects. come from the African continent. Their countries of origin Dark dreams: Australian refugee stories by include Sudan, Sierra Leone, The Ivory Coast, Liberia and Guinea. There are stories of students from the Thai-Burma young writers aged 11-20 years, edited by border and Iraq. The inspiring stories within are in alphabetical Sonja Dechian, Heather Millar and Eva Sallis. order by the students' first names. See ‘The Big Picture’ at the Kent Town, SA: Wakefield Press, 2004. end of the book for more information about the global and B DAR regional situation facing refugees today." – Back cover. “Dark dreams is an anthology of essays, interviews Mark Goudkamp is a Refugee Transition Program teacher at and short stories written by children and young adults the school. Includes comprehension questions. aged 11-20 years. These young writers relate or imaginatively recreate the story of someone who came to Stories from a troubled homeland. Randwick, Australia as a refugee … The stories are the finest of hundreds NSW: Randwick GHS, 2002. 325.21 STO collected through an unprecedented nationwide schools A compilation of material collected as part of Randwick Girls competition.” – Back cover. High School Whole School Anti-Racism Project. fear+hope: the art of asylum seekers in TEACHING RESOURCES Australian detention centres edited by Christopher Hartney. Sydney: Society of Klassroom kaleidoscope: a program to facilitate Literature and Aesthetics, 2011. 704 LIT connectedness and well-being in the culturally diverse classroom . Melbourne: Vic. Foundation for Special issue of Literature & aesthetics contains artworks by asylum seekers and essays. Survivors of Torture, 2007. 325.21 KLA “Suitable for years 7-9, this unit is designed to increase From nothing to zero: letters from refugees in students' understanding of their own cultural background and Australia’s detention centres selected and edited the diversity of other cultural backgrounds within their by Meaghan Amor and Janet Austin. Footscray, Vic.: classroom.” – Publisher website. Also available online: Lonely Planet, 2003. 325.21 FRO http://www.foundationhouse.com.au/resources/publications_and_resources.htm “This book makes a moving and memorable contribution to the School's in for refugees: whole-school guide to debate over the treatment of asylum seekers. It provides direct refugee readiness. 2nd ed. Melbourne: Victorian evidence of the cruel and inhumane consequences of Foundation for Survivors of Torture, 2011. mandatory detention – evidence we ignore at the peril of our 325.21 SCH national pride.” Geoffrey Robertson. -- Back cover. “The purpose of the resource is to provide all school staff (administrators, teachers and non-teaching personnel) and other professionals working with schools, with strategies to help refugee students overcome learning difficulties, adjust to a new environment, and negotiate ongoing challenges as they engage in the schooling system. Intended for use at both primary and secondary levels.” – ( p. 5). 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The sinking of the SIEV X: a case study for Molly and Mobarak [DVD] [85 min.]. secondary schools [kit] compiled by Don Canberra: Ronin Films, 2003. DVD MOL Maclurcan. 2nd ed. Sydney: Secondary Schools' Mobarak Tahiri, a young refugee from Afghanistan, Case Study Committee, 2006. 325.21 SIN receives a three year Temporary Protection Visa for In October 2001 a fishing boat carrying over 400 refugees, Australia and with other refugees obtains mostly from Iraq and Afghanistan, sank in international waters employment in an abattoir in Young. He learns off the Australian coast; 373 people died. This resource, which English and falls in love with an Australian girl, but includes a CD containing all the audio-visual material referred his visa is due to expire. to in the case study, allows students to examine the event in Classification : M detail and answer questions relating to the issues raised. No advantage [electronic resource] [60 min.]. Welcome to Australia [two issues of Herald Sydney: ABC TV, 2013. education , 22 August 2011 and 29 August 2011]. This episode of Four corners goes inside Australia's offshore 304.894 WEL refugee processing centres on Nauru and Manus Island. Originally broadcast ABC TV 29 April 2013. View online at: These two issues explore the impacts migrants have had on http://www.abc.net.au/4corners/stories/2013/04/29/3745276.htm Australia. The articles include profiles of individuals, an analysis of racial prejudice, the influence migrants have had on Once upon a time in Cabramatta Australian language, and the positive impact of migrants on [DVD] [3 x 52 min. + ca. 45 min. NSW schools. extras]. Executive producers: Sue Refugee Week resource kit [online resource]. Clothier, Craig Graham; Special Broadcasting Service Corporation, Designed for Refugee Week 2014. Includes lesson plans, links to interesting websites with games and information specifically 2012. DVD ONC designed for kids, and ideas on how you can bring Refugee This film tells the story of the Vietnamese in Week to your school. Australia, from the days of their arrival in the 1970s, through http://www.refugeeweek.org.au/resources/kit.php the controversial days of the 1980s and 1990s when they were DVDs and ONLINE VIDEOS often vilified and seen to represent all that was wrong with Asian immigration, to, finally, acceptance by the wider Between the devil & the deep blue sea [DVD] [53 community in the 2000s. min.] directed by David Schmidt; produced by Jessie Classification: M Taylor & Chris Kamen. Fitzroy, Vic.: Liquid Our boys: [DVD] “Lovers not fighters”: five kids Creations, 2011. DVD BET and their teachers at Canterbury Boys High, The filmmakers “travelled across Indonesia and met with 250 Sydney: a 4 part series [4 x 26 min.]. Sydney: asylum seekers in jails, detention centres and hostels. Maidstone, 2004. DVD OUR Through candid interviews, hidden camera footage and in the “Our boys follows the lives of five students and their teachers words of asylum seekers themselves, the story of the ‘refugee’ at this cash-strapped government school in Sydney's inner is told.” – Back cover. west. Canterbury Boys has a rich mix of nationalities: 90 Classification : Not classified. Resources for schools: percent of the boys come from non-English speaking http://deepblueseafilm.com/for-schools/ backgrounds, many are refugees or come from disadvantaged The finished people [DVD] [80 min.] homes.” – Back cover. A study guide is also available http://www.abccommercial.com/librarysales/program/our-boys directed by Khoa Do. Australia: Madman Classification : Exempt (for educational use only) Entertainment, 2004. DVD FIN Pacific solution [DVD]: from A small independent project, blending Afghanistan to Aoteoroa [50 min.]. documentary and fiction, about life on the streets of Cabramatta. Civic Square, ACT: Ronin Films, Classification : MA 15+ 2005. DVD PAC Go back to where you came from This DVD tells the story of some of the [DVD]: [56, 55, 50 min.]. Series director: Afghan boys from the MV Tampa, the new home they found in New Zealand and the Ivan O'Mahoney. Bendigo, Vic.: VEA, quest of their families to join them. 2011. DVD GOB Classification : Exempt (for educational use only). Ronin recommends: parental guidance. These DVDs of the three-part SBS series, with offensive language removed, are designed to be Punished not protected [DVD]: used in schools. In this documentary, six leading Australians share their views Australians of various ages and backgrounds, trace in reverse the steps that refugees take to get to Australia. See also an on Australia's asylum seeker policy interactive classroom resource for secondary schools [58 min.]. Directed by Judy Rymer; http://www.sbs.com.au/shows/goback Producers: Bevan Childs, Lois Harris, Note: The Library also holds a copy of the uncensored version. Judy Rymer. Civic Square, ACT: Ronin, Classification : M (uncensored version). 2004. DVD PUN Also available: Go back to where you came from Series 2. A study guide is available from the distributor Lucky miles [DVD] [105, 99 min.] directed website www.roninfilms.com.au Classification: PG by Michael James Rowland. Australia: Madman, 2007. DVD LUC When an Indonesian fishing boat abandons Iraqi and Cambodian refugees off the Western Australian coast, most are quickly caught by officials. However, three men evade capture and head off into the heart of Australia. Includes study guide. 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Raising children in Australia: a resource kit for Asylum seekers and immigration early childhood services working with parents detention edited by Justin Healey. from African backgrounds [kit] produced by the Thirroul, NSW: Spinney Press, 2013. Victorian Foundation for Survivors of Torture Inc. 325.21 ASY (Foundation House) and the Horn of Africa Contents include: Australia’s obligations to Communities Network Inc.; research and writing, asylum seekers; Immigration detention in Louise Crowe. Brunswick, Vic.: The Foundation, Australia; Offshore processing policy debate; 2007. 649.1 RAI Worksheets and activities; Fast facts. The kit comprises a guide for those providing services to Border crimes: Australia's war on illicit migrants families of African background and a DVD for parents with by Michael Grewcock. Sydney: Institute of young children. Criminology Press, 2009. 323.63 GRE A sense of place [DVD] [28 min.] produced and Closing the gap for immigrant directed by Marie Ferris. Civic Square, ACT: Ronin students: policies, practice and Films, 2007. DVD SEN performance . [Electronic resource] “[A]n intimate portrait of four Vietnamese Australians who, for Paris: OECD, 2010. the past 30 years, have searched to build their identity and home in Australia.” – Back cover. OECD conducted policy reviews of migrant Classification : Exempt (for educational use only). Ronin education in Austria, Denmark, Ireland, the recommends: parental guidance. Netherlands, Norway, and Sweden. Access online at http://www.oecd.org A small town welcome [DVD] [31 min.]. Australia: Compassionate bastard: how an ABC, 2008. DVD SMA ordinary bloke came to manage "When Tamworth said ‘no’ to a group of African refugees the Villawood Detention Centre and still fall-out touched a nerve in the Australian psyche. In this story live with himself by Peter Mitchell. Compass explores what happens when a community says ‘yes’. The town of Dorrigo's journey began 3 years ago when Camberwell, Vic.: Penguin Books, tensions were running high over Australia's refugee intake." – 2011. 325.21 MIT Edited from ABC website. Originally broadcast 21 March 2008. “Compassionate bastard takes us behind the Stranger on the shore [electronic resource] [28 razor wire to reveal the sometimes difficult, sometime farcical processes our public servants are duty-bound to implement min.]. Sydney: ABC TV, 2012. while dealing with people in traumatic circumstances.” – Back This episode of Australian story is about a young woman who cover. unsettles her staid middle-class Melbourne family by "adopting" a fourteen year old Afghan asylum seeker. A country too far: writings on Originally broadcast 16th July 2012 ABC TV. View online at: asylum seekers edited by Rosie Scott http://www.abc.net.au/austory/specials/strangerontheshore/default.htm and Thomas Keneally. Melbourne: Viking, 2013. 325.21 COU Untold tragedy [DVD]: the story of the SievX [12 min.]. [Bellingen, NSW]: Studio of Mick Parker, 2004. “In this landmark anthology, twenty-seven of DVD UNT Australia’s finest writers have focused their intelligence and creativity on the theme of the Summary: In October 2001 a fishing boat carrying over 400 dispossessed, bringing a whole new perspective of depth and refugees, mostly from Iraq and Afghanistan, sank in truthfulness to what has become a fraught, distorted war of international waters off the coast of Australia, losing around words.” -- Back cover. 373 lives. Young people across Australia are being invited to design a memorial to the people of SievX on the shores of Desert sorrow: asylum seekers at Lake Burley Griffin. For more information on the SievX and the Woomera by Tom Mann. Kent Town, memorial project, see the website below. SA: Wakefield Press, 2003. 325.21 http://www.sievxmemorial.com/index.html MAN We'll be right, mate! Sudanese youth in transition "… an eye witness testament to a phase in [DVD] [40 min.]. Sydney: University of Western Australia’s history that has been deliberately Sydney, 2008. DVD WEL hidden and is still destroying the lives of men women and children." Eva Sallis. – Back cover. “[D]esigned to assist young Sudanese people as they begin the journey from high school to vocational training, higher Diversity, equality and achievement education or employment in Australia.” -- Publisher website. in education by Gianna Knowles and Classification : Not classified. Vini Lander. London: Sage, 2011. TEACHER REFERENCE 371.8 KNO Assisting refugee students at school: “… the book considers: children who are asylum seekers; the notion of ‘pupil voice’; information and strategies for school what diversity and equality mean in practice; communities. Darlinghurst: NSW DET. Multicultural gender and achievement; looked-after children; social class; Programs Unit, 2003. 325.21 ASS disability; ethnicity and whiteness.” – Back cover. This book provides background information, suggestions and Education and refugee students from southern resources for staff to use when assisting refugee students. Sudan [electronic resource ]. 2005. Profile from the Victorian Foundation for Survivors of Torture. This six-page document describes the conflict in Sudan and outlines some of the issues that may affect their learning. http://www.foundationhouse.com.au/resources/publications_and_resources.htm

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Education, refugees and asylum That sinking feeling: asylum seekers edited by Lala Demirdjian. seekers and the search for the NY: Continuum International, 2012. Indonesian solution by Paul 325.21 EDU Toohey. Quarterly essay , No. 53, 2014. The contributors draw on studies in a number of countries to examine the provision of “Visiting the Indonesian departure points, education to refugees and asylum seekers in Toohey tells the dramatic stories of asylum both their home and host countries. seekers heading from Java to Australia, investigates people- smuggling and witnesses the aftermath of a sinking at sea.” – Face the facts: some questions and answers Publisher website. about Indigenous peoples, migrants and refugees and asylum seekers [Electronic Us and them by Peter Manning. resource] . Sydney: Australian Human Rights Milsons Point, NSW: Random House Commission, 2012. Australia, 2006. 305.89 MAN http://www.humanrights.gov.au/publications/face-facts-2012 "A journalist's investigation of media, Muslims and the Middle East." – Cover. A last resort? National Inquiry into Children in Immigration WEBSITES Detention report , prepared by Adult Migrant English Program (AMEP) Australia. Human rights and Equal Fact sheets produced to assist AMEP teachers with Opportunity Commission. Sydney: information on areas of professional concern such as 2004. 362.7 LAS pronunciation, teaching issues and teaching strategies. http://www.ameprc.mq.edu.au/resources/amep_fact_sheets Online https://www.humanrights.gov.au Amnesty International Australia: Refugees’ Human The law handbook: your practical guide to the Rights law in New South Wales edited by Helen Sheridan. This page includes case studies and fact sheets. 12th ed. Pyrmont, NSW: Thomson Reuters http://www.amnesty.org.au/refugees/ (Professional) Australia Limited, 2012. 349.944 LAW Australian Human Rights Commission Chapter 36: Refugees. Also available online: The human rights page contains much information about the http://www.legalanswers.sl.nsw.gov.au/guides/law_handbook/refugees.html subject and includes links to publications, some of which can be used in the classroom. Mahboba’s promise: how one http://www.hreoc.gov.au/human_rights/about_human_rights.html woman made a world of difference A Just Australia by Mahboba Rawi with Vanessa A Just Australia aims to achieve just and compassionate Mickan-Gramazio. Sydney: Bantam, treatment of refugees, consistent with the human rights 2005. 325 RAW standards which Australia has developed and endorsed. http://www.ajustaustralia.com/ “An Afghani refugee who found a new life in Australia only to lose her beloved son in a Refugee Council of Australia (RCOA) tragic accident, today Mahboba Rawi is the Website includes Fact sheets and refugee stories. driving force behind ‘Mahboba’s Promise’, a groundbreaking http://www.refugeecouncil.org.au/ internationally recognised aid organisation that delivers desperately needed food, shelter, medical attention, education SPARK – and hope – direct to thousands of children and women “[P]rovides curriculum, social and cultural support to newly whose lives have been destroyed by war in her native arrived refugee children and their families through selected Afghanistan.” – Back cover. primary schools in Western Sydney.” – Website. http://spark.vinnies.org.au/home The people smuggler: the true

story of Ali Al Jenabi, the 'Oskar Schindler of Asia' by Robin de Crespigny. Camberwell, Vic.: Viking, 2012. 325.21 DEC See also Hot Topics guides, Anti- “[A]n utterly gripping portrait of a man cut Racism and Refugee Fiction . loose from the protections of civilisation, attempting to retain his dignity and humanity while taking whatever path he can out of an impossible position.” – Back cover. The statute of liberty: how Australians can take back their rights by Geoffrey Robertson. North Sydney: Vintage Books, 2009. 342.94 ROB "This bold and visionary book advocates the adoption of a charter, which will enhance the rights of law-abiding citizens, provide greater protection for the poor and vulnerable, and inspire future generations with pride in our Australian values." – Back cover.