Story: Migrant and refugee organisations

More links and websites

• Diverse communities – exploring the migrant and refugee experience in New Zealand

  A 2008 report on migrants and refugees from the Ministry of Social Development (PDF, 690KB).

• Refugee Settlement: New Zealand Resettlement Strategy

  New Zealand’s refugee settlement strategy 2013 (PDF, 439KB).

• New Zealand Chinese Association

  A national organisation for Chinese New Zealanders, established in 1935.

• Refugees as Survivors New Zealand

  The main organisation providing mental health services to refugees.

More suggestions and sources

• Bueltmann, Tanja. Scottish ethnicity and the making of New Zealand society, 1850–1930. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2011. 

• Jackson, Kathy. Fate, spirits and curses: mental health and traditional beliefs in some refugee communities. Auckland: Auckland Refugees As Survivors Centre, 2006.

• Leckie, Jacqueline (updated by Rachel Simon-Kumar in 2018). 'Immigration, Ethnicity and Women's Organisations.' In Women together: a history of women’s organisations in New Zealand / Ngā rōpū wāhine o te motu, edited by Anne Else. Wellington: Historical Branch of Internal Affairs/Daphne Brasell, 1993, updated 2018.