Obtaining meaningful employment – adequately remunerated, fulfilling employment that is commensurate with a person’s skills and qualifications – is a high priority for people from refugee backgrounds, as it is…
Health
Barriers to achieving good health outcomes in refugee-background communities
By: ChangeMakers Refugee Forum
Published: 2011-06-16
The aim of this report is to increase understanding of the health requirements of refugee-background communities. Like many communities whose members are predominantly from low socio-economic backgrounds, former refugees face…
Health & Wellbeing Migrants and Former Refugees
Ethnicity and Diversity
An equitable education: Achieving equity status and measures to ensure equality for refugee-background tertiary students in Aotearoa New Zealand
By: ChangeMakers Refugee Forum; The New Zealand National Refugee Network; ESOL Assessment and Access Specialist Services; at Victoria University: Angela Joe, Sara Kindon & Postgraduate Students in Geography and Development Studies, Diana O'Rourke & The Empowering Study for Refugee-Background Students Research Team
Published: 2011-06-20
New Zealand is one of eleven countries that has been annually resettling refugees as part of the UNHCR refugee resettlement programme since the 1980s. Consequently, New Zealand’s refugee-background population continues…