1st Edition

Narratives of Migrant and Refugee Discrimination in New Zealand

Edited By Angela McCarthy Copyright 2023
182 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

182 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

182 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

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... Read more

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.