Asylum: Voices Of Australia's Refugees

A collection of first-hand accounts describing what has driven asylum seekers to flee their homelands to come to Australia seeking refuge, and details the traumas involved both in flight from their homeland and in detention on Australian shores.

Also looks at Australia's perception of asylum seekers, media portrayals, why the asylum-seeker issue has polarised the nation and how the protest against the treatment of asylum seekers has exploded.