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Refugee Voices: A journey towards resettlement

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Refugee Voices provides an in-depth look at the resettlement experiences of refugees in their first five years in New Zealand. The report's scope includes housing, family reunification, learning English, finding work, the experiences of children and teenagers, social networks, discrimination, and settling in New Zealand.

 

The full text of this 400-page publication and an executive summary can both be downloaded free (files are in pdf format).

 

Refugee Voices will be a major resource for the improvement of support systems for refugees and the development of refugee policy. Its findings will be used by government departments, the people and organisations that provide services to refugees, along with refugees looking to make a new life for themselves in New Zealand.

  • Executive Summary

  • Title, Contents and Summary

  • Section 1: Introduction

    This section provides the background to the research and the methodology used.

    • Introduction and background
    • Objectives and methodology

  • Section 2: Background

    This section describes the skills and experiences refugees brought to New Zealand and the information and expectations they had about the country before arrival. 

    • Refugee backgrounds
    • Prior information about New Zealand
    • Arrival expectations.

  • Section 3: Settlement

    This section describes participants’ experiences with housing, getting help, family reunification as well as their access to healthcare and their health status. 

    • Housing
    • Getting help
    • Family reunification
    • Health.

  • Section 4: Training, work and income

    This section looks at participants’ experiences learning English, taking part in other study and training, accessing the labour market and their income (including government benefits). 

    • English language
    • Adult education
    • Labour force and other activities
    • Financial support and income.

  • Section 5: Social integration

    This section includes chapters on children and teenagers, social networks, discrimination, cultural integration and participants’ overall impressions of being settled (or otherwise) in New Zealand.

    • Children and teenagers
    • Social networks
    • Discrimination
    • Learning about New Zealand culture and maintenance of own culture.

  • Section 6: Conclusion

    This section provides an overall conclusion.

    • Issues raised by the research
    • Overall conclusion.

  • Section 7: Appendices

    • Criteria for being a refugee
    • Code of ethics
    • Demographics
    • Additional data tables

  • Section 8: Bibliography


Page Last Updated: 18 May 2007

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