Ruth Balint

Ruth Balint is a senior lecturer in History in the School of Humanities and Languages at the University of New South Wales. She has published widely on displacement, refugees and migration, and has also made documentaries for radio and television, including her 2014 documentary The Somerton Man: A Mystery in Four Parts for ABC Radio National. She is the author of Troubled Waters: Borders, Boundaries and Possession in the Timor Sea.

Works By Ruth Balint

The Greatest Crime: They Cannot Take The Sky
They Cannot Take the Sky gathers thirty-five stories of men and women who have experienced Australia’s detention regime. Some are now living in Australia and others remain locked up. Each oral history, told to one of the book’s editors, transcribe...
11 July. 2017

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Ruth Balint

Works By Ruth Balint

The Greatest Crime: They Cannot Take The Sky