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Michelle Peterie, Senior Research Fellow, Sydney Centre for Healthy Societies, University of Sydney

Food poverty, stress and housing insecurity: what happens when your parent is detained or deported

A drawing by a child whose parent was detained. Author provided/A Ripple Effect of Suffering, CC BY-SA

Emma* was just a baby when her dad was deported following the cancellation of his Australian visa. Now aged seven, she sometimes still sleeps with his photograph. She can’t understand why he doesn’t visit her, or why he can’t pick her up from school.

Oliver’s* dad is currently in immigration detention, fighting to stay in Australia. Oliver visits the detention centre each week with his mum and little sister, but worries his family is falling apart.

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