Sorry for the silence. I've been busy, very busy. And exhausted.
While staring blankly at the computer screen, my hand moused its way through some search engines and came up with a few blogs relating to refugees, or even written by refugees, and those should provide a nice diversion from my most recent, partially drunk, jokes played on some personal weblogs. I had a good time, believe you me!
So here are the first few highlights of refugee blogging: Interestingly, there's a lot going on in Australia. It's interesting, but not surprising because the practice of detention somewhere in the desert must have been an eyesore to anyone with an understanding of what that can do to a torture survivor. So there's Mark Thomson's view of Australia's detention of asylum seekers and a search for an antidote to the dictum "might makes right", and a view of African refugees in Australia. Still down under, a very interesting blog is Bridging the Gap, it's definitely worth a visit.
Jonathan Cox's Living Ghost Endurance Challenge is a short but succinct blog on surviving on handouts, what many failed asylum seekers have to face in the UK. I guess I don't need to particularly mention Burma Underground which is already featured as one of my links. Not exclusively refugee related, but featuring the topic occasionally beside other exciting stuff, is the Advocacy Blog. Closer to home, there's the No Borders Glasgow campaign blog of course.
And that's it really. Not much, but I'll keep looking. If you come across any blogs written by refugees, or any other interesting and refugee related blogs, please leave a link in the comment box.





