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Narratives of Migrant and Refugee Discrimination in New Zealand
This book explores the question of whether the conceptualisation of New Zealand as a welcoming nation is accurate. Examining historical and contemporary narratives of migrant and refugee discrimination, it considers the economic, social, political, cultural and historical contexts from which discrimination emerges and its repercussions. Alert to race and ethnicity, gender, age, class, religion and inter-ethnic migrant conflict, this volume traverses an array of discriminatory practices – including xenophobia, racism and sectarianism – and responses to them. With rich evidence, fascinating new insights and engagement comparatively and transnationally with global themes of exploitation, exclusion and inequalities, Narratives of Migrant and Refuge Discrimination in New Zealand will appeal to scholars across the humanities and social sciences with interests in migration and diaspora studies, race and ethnicity and refugee studies.
1. Introduction: Narratives of Refugee and Migrant Discrimination in New Zealand
ANGELA MCCARTHY
2. A Welcoming Nation? Narratives of New Zealand’s History of Hostility Towards Migrants and Refugees
ANGELA MCCARTHY
3. ‘Go back to your country!’ Excluding Indians in Contemporary Aotearoa New Zealand
JACQUELINE LECKIE
4. Institutional Racism and Internalised Racial Oppression: Evidence from the Narratives of Samoans in the New Zealand Workplace
MAULUPEIVAO BETTY OFE-GRANT
5. Stigmatisation and Racial Discrimination in the COVID-19 Context: Responses from the Asian Community in New Zealand
LIANGNI SALLY LIU AND XIAOYUN SOPHIA JIA
6. ‘This is not us?’ African Youth Experiences of Racism in New Zealand
BYRON WILLIAMS
7. Media, Campaigning and Competing Narratives from a Recent Case of Discrimination in New Zealand’s Refugee Quota
MURDOCH STEPHENS
8. Migration, Discrimination and the Pathway to Workplace Exploitation in Aotearoa New Zealand
FRANCIS L. COLLINS AND CHRISTINA STRINGER
9. Conclusion: Migrant and Refugee Discrimination in New Zealand in Comparative Context
ANGELA MCCARTHY
Biography
Angela McCarthy is Professor of Scottish and Irish History and Director of the Centre for Global Migrations at the University of Otago, New Zealand. She is the author of Scottishness and Irishness in New Zealand Since 1840 and Migration, Ethnicity, and Madness: New Zealand, 1860-1910, the co-author of Tea and Empire: James Taylor in Victorian Ceylon, and the co-editor of Migrant Cross-Cultural Encounters in Asia and the Pacific and Migration, Ethnicity, and Mental Health: International Perspectives, 1840-2010.
