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Chapter 4 Sri Lanka

Chapter 4 Sri Lanka
August 16, 20190

Refuge #24 High Risk Tickets

Suthan's search for work pays off and he begins a family of his own. Suthan talks about parenting in a different culture and Barbara talks about her mother.

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Chapter 4 Sri Lanka
August 9, 20190

Refuge #23 Don’t Touch the Hot Plate

Suthan speaks openly about coping with depression and how depression still affects some of his friends who were in detention with him.

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Chapter 4 Sri Lanka
August 2, 20190

Refuge #22 Blue Flowerpots and Pink Champagne

Suthan gradually overcomes severe depression, enrols to study and finds a way to repay legal fees with the help of the Blackwood Circle of Friends.

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Chapter 4 Sri Lanka
July 19, 20194

Refuge #21 Windows face inward

Sri Lankan refugee, Suthan, despaired of ever being free again as he saw other detainees released from Baxter and resorted to desperate measures.

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Chapter 4 Sri Lanka
July 12, 20190

Refuge #20 Factories for peace of mind

After Suthan fled the Sri Lankan civil war, he sought asylum in Australia. But without valid visa, he was taken immediately to immigration detention.

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Chapter 4 Sri Lanka
July 5, 20190

Refuge #19 Escape to nowhere

In 1995, during the Sri Lankan civil war, Suthan's mother sends him away. At the Columbo airport, Suthan is handed over to people smugglers.

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Chapter 4 Sri Lanka
June 28, 20191

Refuge #18 King Coconut and the Mango Tree

Previously: Suthan puts me in touch with Barbara, telling me that she is like a mother to him. After Barbara and I meet for coffee, she emails me her thesis, Suthan’s...

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Chapter 4 Sri Lanka
June 21, 20190

Refuge #17 Broom Cupboard

Barbara and family visit the Baxter Immigration Detention Centre in Port Augusta and around 2004 she meets newly released asylum seekers in Adelaide.

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Chapter 4 Sri Lanka
June 14, 20192

Refuge#16 Like my mother

A boy loses his mother. A mother loses her son. Through the pain of loss, Barbara becomes like a mother to a young Tamil refugee and writes his story.

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