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Refuge New Zealand

by Ann Beaglehole
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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? Aspects of New Zealand's response to refugees and asylum seekers considered in the book include: the careful selection of refugee settlers to ensure they will "fit in;" the preference for "people like us" and the exclusion of so-called "race aliens;" the desire for children, especially orphans; responses to the increasing diversity of refugee intakes; the balance between humanitarian, economic and political considerations; and the refugee-like situation of Maori. As the book also shows, refugees 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 displacement and land loss contributing to subsequent Maori social and economic deprivation.
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Publisher: Otago University Press

Kindle Book

  • Release date: August 30, 2016

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  • ISBN: 9781927322802
  • File size: 4127 KB
  • Release date: August 30, 2016

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  • ISBN: 9781927322802
  • File size: 4127 KB
  • Release date: August 30, 2016

PDF ebook

  • ISBN: 9781927322819
  • File size: 3989 KB
  • Release date: August 30, 2016

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Politics Sociology Nonfiction

Languages

English

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? Aspects of New Zealand's response to refugees and asylum seekers considered in the book include: the careful selection of refugee settlers to ensure they will "fit in;" the preference for "people like us" and the exclusion of so-called "race aliens;" the desire for children, especially orphans; responses to the increasing diversity of refugee intakes; the balance between humanitarian, economic and political considerations; and the refugee-like situation of Maori. As the book also shows, refugees 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 displacement and land loss contributing to subsequent Maori social and economic deprivation.
Expand title description text
Politics Sociology Nonfiction
  • Details

    Publisher:
    Otago University Press

    Kindle Book
    Release date: August 30, 2016

    OverDrive Read
    ISBN: 9781927322802
    File size: 4127 KB
    Release date: August 30, 2016

    EPUB ebook
    ISBN: 9781927322802
    File size: 4127 KB
    Release date: August 30, 2016

    PDF ebook
    ISBN: 9781927322819
    File size: 3989 KB
    Release date: August 30, 2016

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  • Formats
    Kindle Book
    OverDrive Read
    EPUB ebook
    PDF ebook
  • Languages
    English