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Kōrero: Refugees

Iraqi mother and child

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Iraqi mother and child

The last three decades of the 20th century were years of turmoil in the Middle East. Particularly in Iran and Iraq, people fled war, and persecution for their beliefs. Among the arrivals in New Zealand in 1998 were this Iraqi woman, Samira, and her nine-month-old son Raad.

Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi

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

Reference: 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/3914/iraqi-mother-and-child (accessed 4 June 2026).

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