We are delighted to announce the publication of a special journal issue (vol. 17, no.1) of Sites: A Journal of Social Anthropology and Cultural Studies on refugee resettlement in early twenty-first century Aotearoa New Zealand. The publication features several extended papers from our 2018 Refuge in the City conference, along with some new contributions, and book reviews. The publication can be accessed through the journal’s website.
Contents
Introduction (Angela McCarthy)
Former Refugee Voice: Reflection on the Refugee and Resettlement Journey (Govinda Regmi)
Narratives of Navigation: Refugee-Background Women’s Higher Education Journeys in Bangladesh and New Zealand (Vivienne Anderson, Tiffany Cone, Naoko Inoue and Rachel Rafferty)
Former Refugees’ Therapeutic Landscapes in Dunedin, New Zealand (Olivia Eyles and Christina Ergler)
Gaining a Sense of Citizenhsip and Belonging in Aotearoa New Zealand: The Work of Refugee Support Providers (Rachel L. Yzelman and Sophie Bond)
Learning from the Past? Cambodian and Syrian Refugee Experiences in New Zealand, 1979-2019 (Angela McCarthy)
Do We Really Offer Refuge? Using Galtung’s Concept of Structural Violence to Interrogate Refugee Resettlement Support in Aotearoa New Zealand (Rachel Rafferty, Anna Burgin and Vivienne Anderson)
Refugee Voice:’What’s Well Begun is Half Done’: Some Challenges Faced During the First Year of Syrian Former Refugees’ Resettlement (Anonymous)
Afterword (Alison Phipps)
Book Review Essay: Hospitality by Collective Means (Murdoch Stephens): reviewing Sarah Crowther, Working with Asylum Seekers and Refugees: What to Do, What Not to Do, and How to Help; and Lauren Wroe, Rachel Larkin and Reima Ana Maglajlic (eds), Social Work with Refugees, Asylum Seekers and Migrants: Theory and Skills for Practice
Book Reviews of Alison Phipps, Decolonising Multilingualism: Struggles to Decreate (Vini Olsen-Reeder) and Behrouz Boochani, translated by Omid Tofighian, No Friend but the Mountains: Writing from Manus Prison (Jayne Persian)
