Posts Tagged ‘NZ refugees’

Integrating migrants and refugees into the New Zealand way

Thursday, August 24th, 2017
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In a Stuff/Massey University election survey respondents said people coming to New Zealand are not adapting to the way of life here. Pope Francis addresses this question in his statement for next year’s World Day of Migrants and Refugees In this statement, which was released this week, Francis says receiving nations need to do more need to do Read more

Asylum seekers locked up in Auckland prison – NZ’s Manus Island

Thursday, March 30th, 2017

“When I went to the police station they took me to a cell and gave me a mattress. There were cockroaches crawling and biting me, I thought to myself this is similar to a police station in Afghanistan!” It’s just after midnight at Auckland International Airport when Khalid, who we agreed not to name to Read more

NZ can handle more refugees

Friday, June 12th, 2015

Have we got room to double our annual intake of refugees? Of course we have. Would we be able to resettle them well? Of course we could. We’ve done it before, 35 years ago when the ‘bogey’ of the refugee hordes was just as much paraded as it is being today. John Key was a Read more