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Issue Details: First known date: 2021... 2021 We Remember You
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  • Editor's note: At each of our events we remember those who have died, call out their names and surround them with loving words and images—symbols of what we wish they had been afforded. In this collection we include a tribute to those who have died since 2013. These people include those who are friends and family of members who did not quite reach land in Australia; people who reached Australia and sought refuge only to die in Australia’s immigra - tion detention prisons or on insecure visas in community; people who are stuck in limbo in Indonesia due to Australia’s policies and in Indonesian detention prisons funded by Australia; two Manusian people killed by the Australian funded “mobile police squad,” and who local Manusians identify as being killed as a result of the presence of Australia’s immigration prison; and a Nauruan man who drowned trying to save Sayed Hussain on Nauru. Some of these people we have known intimately, some we have known of by name and some we have not. We imagine that there are people who have died known to others but not to us. We honour each person and send love to each family and community who mourn.

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    y separately published work icon Southerly Writing Through Fences – Archipelago of Letters vol. 79 no. 2 2021 23374465 2021 periodical issue

    'The island continent has created an archipelago of incarceration spanning from South East Asia, Micronesia and Melanesia in the Pacific, the Indian Ocean and across mainland Australia. This issue of Southerly, titled Writing Through Fences, is devoted entirely to the work of past and present refugees in these detention centres.

    'The records of their experiences are devastating; their creative responses, across genres and media, are astounding. The issue also includes responses from Australian writers, activists, essayists and students, who engage with refugee writing as well as the practices and consequences of refugee incarceration.

    'Writing Through Fences is guest edited by the writer-activists Hani Abdile, Behrouz Boochani, Janet Galbraith and Omid Tofighian. Two of these editors have direct experience of Australian refugee detention. Three have been displaced and exiled. All four have worked for years with refugees as translators, enablers and publishers to bring the creative voices of refugees into public view and circulation. This issue presents the greatest range of new refugee writing assembled to date in Australia.' (Publication summary)

         2021     pg. 189-193
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