Sea Birds Crying in the Harbour Dark
- Submitting institution
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Liverpool John Moores University
- Unit of assessment
- 27 - English Language and Literature
- Output identifier
- 358
- Type
- A - Authored book
- DOI
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- Publisher
- UWA Publishing
- ISBN
- 9781742589503
- Open access status
- -
- Month of publication
- September
- Year of publication
- 2017
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Request cross-referral to
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
- No
- Criminology
- No
- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- No
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
- This novel poses a number of creative questions in short story form about what constitutes a safe home. Through individual stories about refugees and people who feel ‘homeless’ within themselves, the stories explore contemporary attitudes to freedom of movement, safety and privilege. The collection’s research involved a painstaking review of government policies on migration and asylum, interviews with a number of official visitors to detention centres and resettlement schemes. As each story explores these themes in different ways, the writing posed creative challenges relating to representation, point of view, setting and polemics.
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
- No
- English abstract
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