Fadgen, TimMalihi, Arezoo ZarintajManning, DeborahMills, HarryMarlowe, Jay2025-03-022025-03-022025-02-17Policy Quarterly, ISSN: 2324-1098 (Print); 2324-1101 (Online), Victoria University of Wellington Library, 21(1), 84-95. doi: 10.26686/pq.v21i1.97292324-10982324-1101http://hdl.handle.net/10292/18788This 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.In the interest of promoting debate and wider dissemination, the Institute for Government and Policy Studies (IGPS) encourages use of all or part of the articles appearing in Policy Quarterly (PQ), where there is no element of commercial gain. Appropriate acknowledgement of both author and source should be made in all cases. The IGPS retains copyright. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/48 Law and Legal Studies4807 Public Law44 Human Society3 Good Health and Well BeingJournal ArticleOpenAccess10.26686/pq.v21i1.9729