| Description |
1 online resource (263 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some colour) |
| Contents |
Front Cover; Title Page; Half Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Chapter One: The first refugees; Chapter Two: Escaping from Europe and Asia; Chapter Three: Choosing the 'best' refugees; Chapter Four: A change of direction; Chapter Five: Refugees from South East Asia; Chapter Six: From refugee to new settler; Chapter Seven: 'The children are a triumph'; Chapter Eight: An inconvenient obligation?; Chapter Nine: 'Integration takes time'; Conclusion: A fine record?; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
| Summary |
Unlike people who choose to migrate in search of new opportunities, refugees are compelled to leave their homeland. Typically, they are escaping war and persecution because of their ethnicity, their religion or their political beliefs. Since 1840, New Zealand has given refuge to thousands of people from Europe, South America, Asia, the Middle East and Africa. Refuge New Zealand examines New Zealand's response to refugees and asylum seekers in an historical context. Which groups and categories have been chosen, and why? Who has been kept out and why? How has public policy governing refugee immigration changed over time? As the book also shows, refugeees and asylum seekers from overseas have not been the country's only refugees. War, land confiscations and European settlement had made refugees of Maori in the nineteenth and early twentieth century, with the displacement and land loss contributing to subsequent Maori social and economic deprivation |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Audience |
Suitable for use with senior secondary classes |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Refugees -- New Zealand
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Refugee families -- New Zealand
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Refugees -- Government policy -- New Zealand
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
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Emigration and immigration -- Social aspects
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Refugee families
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Refugees
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Refugees -- Government policy
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| SUBJECT |
New Zealand -- Emigration and immigration -- Social aspects
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| Subject |
New Zealand
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781927322802 |
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1927322804 |
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9781927322819 |
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1927322812 |
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