Forgotten refugees feature in new Guardian Australia podcast series
The Wait explores the human impact of Australia’s border crackdown
Guardian Australia has today launched The Wait, a new podcast series telling the story of the forgotten refugees indefinitely stranded in Indonesia as a result of Australia’s border crackdown.
The narrative series, two years in the making, is told through the eyes of 29-year-old Iranian refugee Mozhgan Moarefizadeh, who has been stranded with her family in Jakarta for most of her adult life — with no right to work, study, marry, travel, or hold a bank account, and an uncertain future.
Over five 40-minute episodes, Moarefizadeh, alongside Australian journalist Nicole Curby, explores how Australia’s immigration policy has essentially created a proxy border in Indonesia, trapping thousands like her in a state of limbo with restricted rights.
