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Kōrero: Refugees

Refugees from Iraq

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Refugees from Iraq

In the last three decades of the 20th century many people fled war and persecution in the Middle East. Refugees who arrived in New Zealand from Iraq in 1998 included family groups, with both young and elderly members.

Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi

Alexander Turnbull Library, Dominion Post Collection (PA-Group-00685)

Reference: EP-Ethnology-General, Ethnic groups in New Zealand-07

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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Me pēnei te tohu i te whārang

Ann Beaglehole, Refugees – 1970s–2003: refugee groups, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/1108/refugees-from-iraq (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Ann Beaglehole, i tāngia i te 4 March 2009.