3 Things for the future
Nov 06, 2017
3 minutes
To be a refugee is to experience a series of profound losses. You lose your home, your country; perhaps your family, career, or language.
I’d been sitting in John Gulzari’s living room for more than an hour when he suddenly jumped up and rushed from the room. John is a Hazara man who fled Afghanistan in 1999, and I had been interviewing him for a book of oral histories about people’s experiences in Australia’s immigration detention centres. John’s house was sparsely furnished,
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