Resettlement & General Health

• Refugee Voices: A journey towards resettlement (2004)
• Auckland Regional Settlement Strategy (2002)
• Wellington refugee action plan (2006)
• Refugee Resettlement: An International Handbook to Guide Reception and Integration (2003)
• Refugee and Migrant Needs: an annotated bibliography of research and consultations (2006)
• A Study on Needs of Asylum-Seekers/Refugees for Early Intervention (1999)
• NZ Immigration settlement strategy
• Refugee and new migrant resettlement: a review of evidence Dec 06

Refugee Medical Care

• Refugee Health in New Zealand - Refugee Health care: A handbook for health professionals (Ministry of Health Website)
• Refugees and asylum seekers: Implications for ED care in Auckland (2003)
• Health care providers handbook on Muslim patients (1996)
• The Health of asylum seekers screened by Auckland Public Health in 1999 and 2000 (2002)
• The health status of quota refugees screened by New Zealand’s Auckland Public Health Service between 1995 and 2000. Mcleod A Reeve M, NZMJ 28 October 2005, vol 118 No 1224
• Refugee Child Health May 2007

Refugee General

• Interventions for Refugee Children in New Zealand Schools: Models, Methods, and Best Practice.(2006)
• Forced Migration Review
• Mt Roskill Refugee Youth Strategy

Refugee Voices: A journey towards resettlement

http://www.immigration.govt.nz/migrant/general/generalinformation/research/
generalresearch/Refugees/refugeevoices/

Executive summary

http://www.immigration.govt.nz/NR/rdonlyres/18C717C0-0720-4CFA-A81D-672BBDE406CF/0/RefugeeVoicesExecutiveSummary.pdf

Refugee Voices provides an in-depth look at the resettlement experiences of refugees in their first five years in New Zealand. The report's scope includes housing, family reunification, learning English, finding work, the experiences of children and teenagers, social networks, discrimination, and settling in New Zealand.

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Auckland Regional Settlement Strategy

http://www.sustainableauckland.govt.nz/settlement.html

The Auckland Regional Settlement Strategy (RSS) was part of the Auckland Sustainable Cities Programme, b supporting new migrants in their successful settlement is essential for the sustainable development of the Auckland Region.

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Wellington refugee action plan

http://www.vuw.ac.nz/cacr/related_links/Health%20and%20Wellbeing/1_Action%20Plan.pdf

The Wellington Regional Action Plan for Refugee Health and Well-being contains a broad range of collaborative actions that collectively aim to achieve significant improvements in the health and well-being of refugee communities in the Wellington region.

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Refugee Resettlement: An International Handbook to Guide Reception and Integration (2003)

Refugee Resettlement: An International Handbook to Guide Reception and Integration.

Available on the UNHCR Website: www.unhcr.ch under Protecting Refugees, Legal Protection, Resettlement. A publication sponsored by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees In collaboration with its governmental and non-governmental partners and resettled refugees. 

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Refugee and Migrant Needs: an annotated bibliography of research and consultations

Boutros Nam and Rachel Ward for RMS Refugee Resettlement Inc Feb 06

http://www.rms.org.nz/document/Refugee-and-migrant-needs-Feb06.pdf

A Study on Needs of Asylum-Seekers/Refugees for Early Intervention (1999)

A Study on Needs of Asylum-Seekers/Refugees for Early Intervention  (Auckland Refugee Council Inc)

Of the 185 member states of the United Nations (UN) only ten have established annual resettlement quotas above and beyond their acceptance of persons arriving spontaneously at their borders.  New Zealand is one of these ten countries granting resettlement quota complying with guidelines set and overseen by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR).  In a published document (Deloitte-Rose-Tomatsu, 1991) it is suggest that the estimated number of refugees in New Zealand (NZ) was 25,000 and that approximately more than 2,000 new refugees enter NZ every year.  However, looking at the increasing number of both quota refugees and asylum-seekers to NZ in recent years suggested there are more than 35,000 refugees residing in NZ today.

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Refugee Health in New Zealand - Refugee Health care: A handbook for health professionals (Ministry of Health Website)

Date of publication: November 2001

The Refugee Health Care Handbook has been developed for general practitioners and other health workers who care for refugee people. The book not only provides insights into the cultural and ethnic backgrounds of the main refugee groups in New Zealand but also provides guidance to health professionals on conducting culturally sensitive consultations and effective use of interpreters. In addition there is information and advice on physical and mental health issues common to refugee people, including conditions which may be unfamiliar to New Zealand practitioners. The book concludes with a contact list of referral and support agencies.

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Refugees and asylum seekers: Implications for ED care in Auckland, New Zealand

(August 2003). Journal of Emergency Nursing, 29, (4), 337-341. Nicola Young. & Annette Mortensen

Implications for ED care in Auckland, New Zealand (PDF 45KB)

Health care providers handbook on Muslim patients (1996)

Health care providers handbook on Muslim patients (Queensland Government Website)

This publication deals briefly with those aspects of Islam which would affect treatment of social, psychological, welfare and medical problems of Muslims.

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The Health of asylum seekers screened by Auckland Public Health in 1999 and 2000 (2002)

The Health of asylum seekers screened by Auckland Public Health in 1999 and 2000 Mark Hobbs, Catherine Moor, Tony Wansbrough, Lester Calder

Approximately 1500 to 1800 applications for refugee status are made to the New Zealand Immigration Service each year. Approximately one third of these asylum seekers receive health screening from Auckland Public Health. We report here key findings from this screening programme for the period 1999 to 2000. 

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Interventions for Refugee Children in New Zealand Schools: Models, Methods, and Best Practice.(2006)

Interventions for Refugee Children in New Zealand Schools: Models, Methods, and Best Practice. (Ministry of Education Website)

This review looks at different models, methods and best practice for intervening with refugee children in New Zealand schools. It examines the literature on refugee trauma, loss and grief and second language concerns, resilience, issues of migration, school and teacher effects, and conceptual and policy issues. It also discusses a range of best practices for refugee children within schools.

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A Study on Needs of Asylum-Seekers/Refugees for Early Intervention  (Auckland Refugee Council Inc)

Of the 185 member states of the United Nations (UN) only ten have established annual resettlement quotas above and beyond their acceptance of persons arriving spontaneously at their borders.  New Zealand is one of these ten countries granting resettlement quota complying with guidelines set and overseen by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR).  In a published document (Deloitte-Rose-Tomatsu, 1991) it is suggest that the estimated number of refugees in New Zealand (NZ) was 25,000 and that approximately more than 2,000 new refugees enter NZ every year.  However, looking at the increasing number of both quota refugees and asylum-seekers to NZ in recent years suggested there are more than 35,000 refugees residing in NZ today.

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Forced Migration Review

http://www.fmreview.org

Forced Migration Review is the in-house journal of the Refugee Studies Centre, Queen Elizabeth House, University of Oxford. Forced Migration Review is a 48-page magazine published three times a year in English, Spanish and Arabic. Produced in collaboration with the Global IDP Project of the Norwegian Refugee Council.  

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