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Examining historical and contemporary narratives of migrant and refugee discrimination, this book explores the question of whether the conceptualisation of New Zealand as a welcoming nation is accurate, considering the economic, social, political, cultural and historical contexts from which discrimination emerges and its repercussions.
List of contents
1. Introduction: Narratives of Refugee and Migrant Discrimination in New Zealand
2. A Welcoming Nation? Narratives of New Zealand’s History of Hostility Towards Migrants and Refugees
3. ‘Go back to your country!’ Excluding Indians in Contemporary Aotearoa New Zealand
4. Institutional Racism and Internalised Racial Oppression: Evidence from the Narratives of Samoans in the New Zealand Workplace
5. Stigmatisation and Racial Discrimination in the COVID-19 Context: Responses from the Asian Community in New Zealand
6. ‘This is not us?’ African Youth Experiences of Racism in New Zealand
7. Media, Campaigning and Competing Narratives from a Recent Case of Discrimination in New Zealand’s Refugee Quota
8. Migration, Discrimination and the Pathway to Workplace Exploitation in Aotearoa New Zealand
9. Conclusion: Migrant and Refugee Discrimination in New Zealand in Comparative Context
About the author
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.
Summary
Examining historical and contemporary narratives of migrant and refugee discrimination, this book explores the question of whether the conceptualisation of New Zealand as a welcoming nation is accurate, considering the economic, social, political, cultural and historical contexts from which discrimination emerges and its repercussions.
