The Resource Unbreakable threads : the true story of an Australian mother, a refugee boy and what it really means to be a family, Emma Adams
Unbreakable threads : the true story of an Australian mother, a refugee boy and what it really means to be a family, Emma Adams
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The item Unbreakable threads : the true story of an Australian mother, a refugee boy and what it really means to be a family, Emma Adams represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in City Libraries, City of Gold Coast.
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- Summary
- An extraordinary story of courage and kindness and the ultimate triumph of family over what, at times, seem like insurmountable odds. 'Abdul is dignified, defiant even, but his poise is beginning to wear thin in this place. He needs surgery for a chronic shoulder injury sustained when he was hit by a car in Kabul. Like the others in detention with him, he faces an uncertain fate, and years in limbo. Most of the people in the centre have already had their spirits broken.' When psychiatrist and mother of three Emma Adams travels to Darwin as an observer of conditions for mothers and babies in the immigration detention centres there, she expects the trip to be confronting. What she doesn't expect is to return to Canberra consumed by the idea that she must help a sixteen-year-old unaccompanied Hazara boy from Afghanistan - Abdul. The premise was simple: Wouldn't any teenage boy be better off staying with a family rather than locked behind a wire fence? In this brutal and bureaucratic system, freedom was a hopeless dream. Emma and Abdul's connection, and her fight to get him out and provide him with an Australian home, a family and a future, forms an important testimony in Australia's appalling treatment of asylum seekers. Their story is a beacon of hope and humanity
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 1 online resource.
- Note
- Downloadable Book
- Isbn
- 9781760637187
- Label
- Unbreakable threads : the true story of an Australian mother, a refugee boy and what it really means to be a family
- Title
- Unbreakable threads
- Title remainder
- the true story of an Australian mother, a refugee boy and what it really means to be a family
- Statement of responsibility
- Emma Adams
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- An extraordinary story of courage and kindness and the ultimate triumph of family over what, at times, seem like insurmountable odds. 'Abdul is dignified, defiant even, but his poise is beginning to wear thin in this place. He needs surgery for a chronic shoulder injury sustained when he was hit by a car in Kabul. Like the others in detention with him, he faces an uncertain fate, and years in limbo. Most of the people in the centre have already had their spirits broken.' When psychiatrist and mother of three Emma Adams travels to Darwin as an observer of conditions for mothers and babies in the immigration detention centres there, she expects the trip to be confronting. What she doesn't expect is to return to Canberra consumed by the idea that she must help a sixteen-year-old unaccompanied Hazara boy from Afghanistan - Abdul. The premise was simple: Wouldn't any teenage boy be better off staying with a family rather than locked behind a wire fence? In this brutal and bureaucratic system, freedom was a hopeless dream. Emma and Abdul's connection, and her fight to get him out and provide him with an Australian home, a family and a future, forms an important testimony in Australia's appalling treatment of asylum seekers. Their story is a beacon of hope and humanity
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- Adams, Emma
- Intended audience
- Adult
- Literary form
- non fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Adams, Emma
- Afghans
- Psychiatrists
- Refugees
- Target audience
- adult
- Label
- Unbreakable threads : the true story of an Australian mother, a refugee boy and what it really means to be a family, Emma Adams
- Link
- https://fe.bolindadigital.com/wldcs_bol_fo/b2i/productDetail.html?productId=AAU_525312&b2bSite=1545
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- Downloadable Book
- Carrier category
- online resource
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- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier.
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- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent.
- Control code
- 9781760637187-AAU1541748-000
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource.
- Form of item
- electronic
- Governing access note
- Access restricted to registered members of City Libraries
- Isbn
- 9781760637187
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia.
- Media type code
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- c
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System details
- Mode of access: World Wide Web
- Label
- Unbreakable threads : the true story of an Australian mother, a refugee boy and what it really means to be a family, Emma Adams
- Link
- https://fe.bolindadigital.com/wldcs_bol_fo/b2i/productDetail.html?productId=AAU_525312&b2bSite=1545
- Note
- Downloadable Book
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
-
- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier.
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent.
- Control code
- 9781760637187-AAU1541748-000
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource.
- Form of item
- electronic
- Governing access note
- Access restricted to registered members of City Libraries
- Isbn
- 9781760637187
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia.
- Media type code
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- c
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System details
- Mode of access: World Wide Web
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