Sending more than 1,000 WhatsApp messages – sometimes two pages at a time, and at other times a single paragraph texted on a smuggled cellphone – is how Kurdish-Iranian scholar, poet and journalist Behrouz Boochani charted his survival and that of other asylum seekers in his stunning memoirCanadians may be transfixed by stories of American authorities forcefully separating children from their asylum-seeking parents at the southern U.S. border.
Boochani told me that he and the thousand others still held in Nauru and on Manus Island had been hoping that the May 18 federal election in Australia would usher in a change of government that would make it possible for the asylum seekers to find refuge in New Zealand, which has offered to take some of the detainees. However, after the re-election of Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison – who has adopted a hard, anti-refugee stand – Boochani wrote to me that the detainees felt devastated.
One of those who has been given freedom is Amir Taghinia, a 26-year-old from Iran who was sponsored by a Vancouver family and managed to travel to Canada, where he now works and studies. Taghinia, who was detained in the same compound as Boochani from 2013 to 2017, said in an interview that Australia’s offshore detainees are still at grave risk of being killed, suffering mental breakdowns or dying by suicide.
Boochani says in the book that he is writing allegory rather than reportage and that he invents characters instead of writing about real people.
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