Kōrero: Refugees

Asian refugees from Uganda

Asian refugees from Uganda

As part of his policy to ‘Africanise’ Uganda in the early 1970s, the dictator Idi Amin expelled Asians who had lived there for several generations. Among the more than 200 Ugandan Asians who came to New Zealand were members of the Patel family, pictured here.

Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi

Alexander Turnbull Library, Evening Post Collection (PAColl-0614)
Reference: EP/1972/5327/5

Permission of the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa, must be obtained before any re-use of this image.

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Te tuhi tohutoro mō tēnei whārangi:

Ann Beaglehole, 'Refugees - 1950s–1970s: refugee groups', Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, http://www.TeAra.govt.nz/mi/photograph/1106/asian-refugees-from-uganda (accessed 29 March 2024)

He kōrero nā Ann Beaglehole, i tāngia i te 8 Feb 2005