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Offshore Detention in Australia: : Behrouz Boochani’s No Friend but the Mountains: Writing from Manus Prison (2018)

Wilson, J. (2021) Offshore Detention in Australia: : Behrouz Boochani’s No Friend but the Mountains: Writing from Manus Prison (2018). Anglica. 30(3), pp. 163-183. 0860-5734.

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Abstract:
This article focuses on the “Pacific Solution,” the Australian national policy of controlling illegal migration by detaining refugees in Immigrant Detention Centres in offshore Pacific islands of Manus and Nauru, and the human rights issues it raises. It efers to Behrouz Boochani’s prize-winning refugee memoir, No Friend but the Mountains: Writing from Manus Prison (2018) as both a prison narrative of resilience and a politically resistant text, and it discusses Boochani’s representation of Manus Detention camp as “The Kyriarchal System” in terms of Foucault’s “monstrous heterotopia.” The article emphasises the issues of accountability and responsibility in the bilateral governance arrangements of the Manus Detention Centre between Australia and Papua New Guinea, and considers the possibility of more humane detention practices in the future.
Uncontrolled Keywords:
/dk/atira/pure/sustainabledevelopmentgoals/reduced_inequalities
Creators:
Wilson, J.
Faculties, Divisions and Institutes:
Research Centres > Centre for Critical and Creative Writing
Date:
9 October 2021
Date Type:
Publication
Page Range:
pp. 163-183
Journal or Publication Title:
Anglica
Volume:
30
Number:
3
Number of Pages:
21
Language:
English
DOI:
10.7311/0860-5734.30.3.09
ISSN:
0860-5734
Status:
Published / Disseminated
Refereed:
Yes
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