Detained asylum seekers, health care, and questions of human(e)ness

Abstract This paper contains some personal observations of life inside Woomera Detention Centre and certain aspects of the detained asylum seeker experience. This is from my own reference point as a psychiatric nurse who in 2002 undertook a six‐week contract at Woomera, and from my subsequent sociol...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Glenda Koutroulis
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wiley 2003-08-01
Series:Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-842X.2003.tb00413.x