TY - BOOK AU - Neville,Angelica AU - Dao,Andre AU - Affleck,Dana AU - Merope,Sienna AU - Green,Michael AU - Tsiolkas,Christos TI - They cannot take the sky: stories from detention SN - 9781760292805 U1 - 325.210 23 PY - 2017/// CY - Crows Nest, New South Wales PB - Allen & Unwin KW - Illegal aliens KW - Australia KW - Anecdotes KW - Political refugees KW - Detention of persons KW - Aliens KW - Institutional care KW - Refugees and human rights KW - Alien detention centers KW - Refugees KW - Refugee camps KW - Emigration and immigration N1 - "A behind the wire book"--Cover; "Foreword by Christos Tsiolkas"--Cover N2 - They Cannot Take The Sky is an oral history project documenting the stories of men, women and children who have experienced Australian mandatory detention over the past 23 years. It seeks to bring a new perspective to the public understanding of mandatory detention by sharing the reality of the people who have lived it...Through in depth interviews with current and ex-detainees, it captures narrators' histories, experiences of seeking protection in Australia and the detailed reality of mandatory detention...Working with narrators, these interviews are then edited into first person narratives that take the form of literary short stories ER -