Story: Africans
Many African immigrants are women and children who arrived as refugees. The mothers of these children, photographed in 1995, were forced to flee Somalia after war broke out between several clans. They lived in refugee camps in Kenya before coming to New Zealand.
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Alexander Turnbull Library, Evening Post Collection (PAColl-7327)
Reference: EP/1995/3882/31
Photograph by Craig Simcox
Permission of the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Matauranga o Aotearoa, must be obtained before any re-use of this image.