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No man is an island / Adele Dumont.

No man is an island / Adele Dumont.
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ISBN 9780733636370 (pbk.)
0733636373 (pbk.)
Name Dumont, Adele author.
Title No man is an island / Adele Dumont.
Published Sydney, N.S.W. Hachette Australia, 2016.
Description ix, 324 pages ; 24 cm.
Summary In 2010, 24-year-old Sydneysider Adele Dumont volunteered to teach English to men in immigration detention on Christmas Island. She didn't expect to find the work so rewarding or the people she met so interesting. So when she was offered a job working at Curtin detention centre near Derby in Western Australia, she took it. Working at Curtin required a fly-in fly-out lifestyle. Adele lived in a donga in WA, her life full of bus trips to the detention centre; back home in Sydney, she was overwhelmed by the choices and privileges people had. What kept her returning to Curtin were her students: men from many lands who had sacrificed all they knew for a chance to live in Australia; men who were unfailingly polite to her in a situation that was barbarous. Men who were looking for an opportunity for a better life. NO MAN IS AN ISLAND is a unique personal story that takes a humanitarian stance on immigration detention. It makes the issue of immigration detention accessible to far more interested Australians than newspaper articles. It is a vividly told story full of characters and humanity. It is the story about immigration detention all Australians need to read.
Subjects Curtin Immigration Reception and Processing Centre
Illegal aliens -- Australia
Asylum, Right of -- Australia
Aliens -- Civil rights -- Australia
Human rights -- Australia
Alien detention centers -- Australia
English teachers -- Australia -- Anecdotes
Illegal aliens -- Australia -- Anecdotes
Detention of persons -- Australia -- Anecdotes
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