Gender:
Female
Heritage:
Aboriginal
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Most Referenced Works
Awards for Works
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Unbreakable Threads
Unbreakable Threads : The True Story of an Australian Mother, a Refugee Boy and What It Really Means To Be a Family
Crows Nest
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Allen and Unwin
,
2018
14072092
2018
single work
autobiography
'Back in 2014, child/neo-natal psychiatrist, Emma Adams, travelled to Darwin and then on to Blaydin Detention Centre as a representative of ChilOut (Children Out of Immigration Detention). The trip was confronting for obvious and not so obvious reasons and Emma and her colleague both left feeling extremely distressed. She returned to her Canberra family—her doctor husband Rob and her three sons—and became consumed by the idea that she must help one of the boys she met at Blaydin. So followed eighteen months of lobbying to bring Abdul, an Afghanistani Hazara boy aged around fifteen, to come and live with them as part of their family.
'Three years later, Abdul is one of Emma's boys. He is doing his HSC, just like one of Emma's other sons, but the decision he makes about future study will revolve around what will give him the best chance of winning a coveted temporary protection visa. Emma is one of only a handful of Australians, including Julian Burnside, who managed to foster a child from a detention centre.'
Source: Publisher's blurb.
- 2018 winner Canberra Critics Circle Awards — Non-fiction
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