Freedom Only Freedom

<p>Over six years of imprisonment in Australia's offshore migrant detention centre the Kurdish-Iranian journalist and writer Behrouz Boochani bore personal witness to the suffering and degradation inflicted on him and his fellow refugees culminating eventually in his prize-winning book - <i>No Friend but the Mountains</i>. In the articles essays and poems he wrote while detained he emerged as both a tenacious campaigner and activist as well as a deeply humane voice which reflects the indignity and plight of the many thousands of detained migrants across the world. <p/>In this book Boochani's collected writings are combined with essays from experts on migration refugee rights politics and literature. Together they provide a moving creative and challenging account of not only one writer's harrowing experience and inspiring resilience but the wider structures of violence which hold thousands of human beings in a state of misery in migrant camps throughout Western nation-states and beyond.</p>