Skip to content
The Curious Scribbler
  • About
  • Refuge
    • Prologue
    • Chapter 1 Vietnam
    • Chapter 2 Romania
    • Chapter 3 China
    • Chapter 4 Sri Lanka
    • Chapter 5 Iraq
    • Chapter 6 Ethiopia
    • Chapter 7 Myanmar
    • Chapter 8 Iran
    • Chapter 9 Australia
  • English teaching resources
  • Blog
    • Culture
    • Displacement
    • Reflections
    • Reading Chair & Writing Desk
  • Books
  • Contact
Tag

asylum seekers

Asylum Seekers & Refugees
December 1, 20171

Don’t let headlines kill the welcome

In The Australian last weekend, journalist Paige Taylor described the gradual hardening of her heart. She wrote of baby Abul flushed from a baby-carrier strapped to his mother...

Continue Reading

Asylum Seekers & Refugees
October 27, 20172

Interview with Blackwood Circle of Friends convenor: Tricia Rushton

Last week, I spoke to Tricia Rushton, the current convenor of the Blackwood Circle of Friends, a support group for refugees and asylum seekers. The Circle of Friends was...

Continue Reading

Book Dedication by Malcolm Fraser
Asylum Seekers & Refugees
October 13, 20174

Hosting New Migrants: on the capacity to welcome

When we first arrived in Adelaide, we stayed in a two-bedroom unit off Goodwood Road. My sister’s old school friend had arranged for us to live there while the...

Continue Reading

The Curious Scribbler
Asylum Seekers & Refugees
February 17, 20170

Mothers and Sons

Tomorrow morning, I shall bid my seventeen-year-old son farewell as he travels to another city to begin his undergraduate studies. These past weeks, as friends have learnt of...

Continue Reading

The Curious Scribbler
Asylum Seekers & Refugees
February 10, 20171

The Little Man Counts

Earlier this year, I stopped to read a commemorative board by a sandy footpath leading to Chapman’s Bar at Emerald Bay on Pangkor Laut. I learnt that the bar was named...

Continue Reading

The Curious Scribbler
Asylum Seekers & Refugees
March 26, 20150

Harmony Day Celebrations

Last Sunday, at the Migration Museum in Adelaide, Anette and Zaid demonstrated how to make Injera, an Eritrean/Ethiopian flatbread. They have kindly agreed to share...

Continue Reading

The Curious Scribbler
Book progress update
March 20, 20152

Unfinished business

“You’ll send me a copy, won’t you?” said Mr Malcolm Fraser to me as we stood at the door of his office, high above Collins Street in Melbourne. I...

Continue Reading

glass chess pieces
Book progress update
March 12, 20151

The American invasion and chess

“The circumstances in our country are very difficult; this difficulty comes from the Americans invading my country because everything was destroyed after the invasion....

Continue Reading

The Curious Scribbler
Asylum Seekers & Refugees
February 18, 20151

Delicious baby

“Delicious baby,” said my student as her child lay suckling in her arms. “Delicious milk?” I asked. “No, delicious baby.” “In English...

Continue Reading

©2017 May-Kuan Lim. All Rights Reserved.
All brands and trademarks cited are the rights of their respective owners.

WordPress Theme by OptimizePress