“Still I dream I’m in detention”: Foundation House study documents impact of immigration detention
“Still I dream I’m in detention, still I dream they isolate me, they handcuff me…they keep me forever in detention…everywhere I go it just feel like someone is following me, someone is basically secretly–is tracking me down, they want to know exactly what I am up to.”
These words might well have been uttered by a refugee describing the haunting effects of the persecution that preceded their flight to safety in Australia.
They are indeed the words of a refugee, but he is talking about the impact of having been held in immigration detention in Australia, years after his release when his application for protection was finally granted.
