Behrouz Boochani’s No Friend but the Mountains: A Call for Dignity and Justice

Since 2001 Australia’s offshore processing regime has turned asylum seekers into one of the country’s main destitute groups. No seeker trying to reach Australia by boat is allowed settle in country. If their intercepted Australian Navy waters, they are forced turn back, or forcefully transferred and indefinitely held Nauru Papua New Guinea until refuge applications processed. This article focuses on testimony these who was detention centres Manus Island: Behrouz Boochani’s memoir Friend but Mountains: Writing from Prison (2018). It explores author’s condemnation oppressive kyriarchal system which founded, his embracement environment as a form resistance against it. Contrary pejorative stereotyped images often used governments some mainstream media justify anti-immigration policies, first-person account reminds us that refugees not disposable objects, active agents should be treated more humane ethical way all around world.