‘Fortress New Zealand’: Examining Refugee Status Determination for 11,000 Asylum Claimants Through Integrated Data
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Fadgen, Tim
Malihi, Arezoo Zarintaj
Manning, Deborah
Mills, Harry
Marlowe, Jay
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Institute for Government and Policy Studies. Victoria University of Wellington.
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This article presents a profile of Aotearoa New Zealand’s asylum claimants – people who have sought recognition as a refugee or protected person and then applied for a temporary visa. Sourcing data from New Zealand’s Integrated Data Infrastructure (IDI), we considered 11,091 refugee claimants between 1997 and 2022. The data suggests that the path to recognition can be long and circuitous, requiring multiple applications before status recognition. The data also reveals a wide health and mental health services uptake gap despite recent policy changes. When read together, we contend that this data supports the notion that everyday, discerning bordering exists in New Zealand through different forms of permeability and permanence based on gender and ethnicity. The article concludes with some insights for future policy directions.Description
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48 Law and Legal Studies, 4807 Public Law, 44 Human Society, 3 Good Health and Well Being
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Policy Quarterly, ISSN: 2324-1098 (Print); 2324-1101 (Online), Victoria University of Wellington Library, 21(1), 84-95. doi: 10.26686/pq.v21i1.9729
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