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… community. Groups have also formed around nationality (Somali Friendship Society), ethnicity (Oromo Community) and … New Zealand women, she longs to see her relatives back in Somalia. ‘There’s something missing … I feel my life would … my future takes me, New Zealand will be my home – and Somalia will be my home as well.’ 1 Coming from war zones to …
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Part of story: Africans
… policy was adopted. With the wars in Ethiopia (1991–93) and Somalia (1992–94), and the genocide in Rwanda (1994), annual … (82%) of all African arrivals until 2003, others came from Somalia (7%), Egypt (4%), Zimbabwe (4%), and Ethiopia (2%). … two years after Somalia imploded into clan warfare, 3,200 Somalis have been granted residency – 1,500 as refugees, and …
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Part of story: Africans
… Zealand in the late 1990s and early 2000s. They included 94 Somalis who had fled civil war, drought and famine between … Africa in significant numbers. By 2006 there were 1,857 Somalis in New Zealand. Some had arrived as refugees, and …
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Part of story: Refugees
… group. African: 4,053 (2006); 6,819 (2013); 7,221 (2018) Somali: 2,319 (2006); 1,614 (2013); 1,701 (2018) Ethiopian: … 654 2006 census: 930 2013 census: 1,140 2018 census: 1,479 Somalia 2001 census: 1,770 2006 census: 1,857 2013 census: …
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Part of story: Africans
… China, India, South Korea, Cambodia and Vietnam. Groups of Somali refugees arrived in the city from the 1990s. Planning …
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Part of story: Wellington region
… followed in the 1980s by gentrifiers. During the 1990s a Somali community grew, making the district among the city’s …
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Part of story: Wellington places
… with the Afghan, Burmese, Burundian, Iranian, Iraqi, Somalian and Sudanese communities. They run sport, road … refugees adjust to their new lives. No camels Ahmed Tani of Somalia says refugees from his country celebrate their … in July with dancing in national costume and feasting. ‘In Somalia we eat camel stewed in water, but in New Zealand we …
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Part of story: Migrant and refugee organisations
… people from other European, Pacific and Asian countries. A Somali community grew in Hamilton from the 1990s. In 2013 …
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Part of story: Waikato region
… The group’s members include refugees from Tanzania, Somalia, Ethiopia and Sudan, and migrants from the Caribbean … groupings. African migrants, for example, formed the Somali Friendship Society, the Oromo Community and the …
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Part of story: Migrant and refugee organisations