Mr. Bean's play follows a group of people of varying nationalities in an English immigration detention center as they while away the hours (waiting for permission to enter the country) by putting on a show about immigrants in Britain through the centuries, from the age of the Saxons to the 21st century.
I taught myself English in Nauru detention camp.
He wrote the book by hand in English from the detention center.
The reader has the advantage of Iona, as narrative sections pick up the stories of both Jian and Mu: Jian's passage through English and Swiss detention centres, and Mu's subsequent career as a punk performance poet, also pursued in exile; Mu's dying father; and the couple's passion for each other, for politics and for their respective creative lives.
Predictors included in the initial model were age; gender; English proficiency; exposure to detention and abuse, traumatic loss, and conflict; and adaptation difficulties, threat to family, residency determination difficulties, healthcare, welfare, asylum difficulties, and loss of culture and support.
Participants were excluded if they could not speak Arabic or English, did not hold a humanitarian visa, and/or had been living in the community (i.e. outside of detention) for less than six months.
Then he was denied materials to learn English or Arabic, because the detention center has a policy against helping the presumed-dangerous detainees communicate with one another.
In December 2004, the House of Lords decided a case about English legislation which provided for detention of people thought to present a terrorist risk if they could not be deported.
This contemporary realism gives a significance to mundane events experienced by Little Bee, while bringing into focus "sad and ignoble" aspects of English culture such as the detention system.
Maclean was held under Napoleon's detention of the English in France, and after his eventual release, he returned to England, where he joined the hospital staff of the British Army in the lowly position of hospital mate.
