New Zealand: 'An immigration experience unlike any other in the world'


Refugees are resettled in Auckland, Hamilton, Palmerston North, Wellington, Nelson, Christchurch and Dunedin, though they can later move elsewhere if they choose.

Times of Ahmad | News Watch | UK Desk
Source/Credit: Stuff
By Adam Dudding and Chris McKeen |

Over three months, Stuff journalists Adam Dudding and Chris McKeen followed a family of refugees from Pakistan as they arrived in New Zealand and went through an immigration experience unlike any other in the world – a six-week assessment and support programme that is also a kind of crash-course in being a Kiwi.

Attia Tul Kafi is in the back seat, looking out at the rolling green hills. She’s six-and-a-half, though she’s so tall she could pass for eight, and isn’t in a carseat. She speaks only a little English, but enough to ask an important question.

“Are there tigers?”

Nope Attia, no tigers in the Waikato countryside. Nothing much dangerous around here at all really, apart from the occasional blind corner, or the powerful rip off the Raglan coast.
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