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Friday, 5 February 2021, 3:10 pm New Zealand’s Refugee Quota Programme is resuming with small groups of refugee families beginning to arrive for resettlement in February 2021. New Zealand’s annual refugee programme is a reflection of our international humanitarian commitments to provide protection to people who are not able to return safely to their home country. Immigration New Zealand’s (INZ) General Manager Refugee and Migrant Services, Fiona Whiteridge says since March last year, th...

Scoop Auckland provides news and views from Auckland, New Zealand

Small groups of refugee families to be allowed into New Zealand Saturday, February 6, 2021 RNZ Refugees will soon resume arriving in New Zealand for the first time since the resettlement programme was frozen last year. The Refugee Quota Programme has been on hold since March 2020, when the country closed the borders last year as part of its Covid-19 response. The only exception had been to a small number of priority emergency cases. By last week, a total of 50 people arrived in ...

Pacific Scoop provides news and views from the Pacific and New Zealand

Senior Lecturer in Border and Resource Security, Massey University Before COVID-19 hit New Zealand’s shores last year, most people’s understanding of defending a border would have come from watching TV reality show Border Patrol. It is easy to understand — on the maps, our country is surrounded by an ocean moat, a natural border. This makes controlling risks arriving from overseas relatively easy as there are limited points at which they can enter New Zealand. Since February 2, 2020, when...

• Source:  1 NEWS A seasonal worker from Vanuatu carrying out their stay at an Auckland Covid-19 managed isolation hotel has died overnight. Crowne Plaza. Source: Google Maps Emergency services were called to the Crowne Plaza managed at around 7:30pm but were unable to assist the 44-year-old man.  The man had only arrived in New Zeal...

Jason Dorday/Stuff Sandra Toone of Aucklands Māngere Bridge was asked to drop off a jury service letter inside the grounds of a Managed Isolation facility. A woman’s quest to post a letter ended with her being invited behind the fence of a managed isolation facility. Sandra Toone, of south Auckland’s Māngere Bridge, had been called up for jury service in late January. Wanting to opt out of the service and all future services – “I’m 78 now, I think it’s time I applied for a perma...

ANALYSIS: There are three important things to realise about borders.

Despite Kiwis having a right to come home, 12 people from the Australian group have been given precedence in securing spaces in managed isolation facilities. About 40,000 of their concert tickets have already been sold in an impressive example of playing the odds; after all, won’t someone think of the children? The Wiggles announced their 10-show tour in November 2020, and tickets went on sale later that month. While there had been much talk of the anticipated trans-Tasman bubble deal – b...

Here are three important things to realise about borders.