Refugees And Migrants
Unease over work, immigration for international students
Educators are divided over using the promise of jobs and permanent residence to entice foreign students to this country. Audio
Increase in refugee quota wont be considered til next year
The government says it has no immediate plans to increase the number of refugees accepted into New Zealand each year. Audio
Spiritual Outlook for 22 March 2015
On Spiritual Outlook: celebrating Nowruz or Persian New Year. Audio
Is Auckland becoming increasingly racially segregated?
Professor Paul Spoonley of Massey University, a project leader for a major research programme on immigration and diversity, says many small and medium employers assume anyone with an Asian name is an… Audio
Asia Foundation prompts question of "segregation" problem
The Asia New Zealand Foundation says census data showing Asians make up more than half the population in fifteen Auckland suburbs is not evidence of a segregation problem. Audio
Brett Bailey: Macbeth in the Congo
Director of South African performance company Third World Bunfight, whose latest production is a radical take on Verdi's opera Macbeth, set in modern-day Congo, and playing at the Auckland Arts… Audio
Struggle to secure NZ residency for Fijian workers
Three Fijian forestry workers who are also volunteer firefighters are struggling to gain residency despite having lived in New Zealand for 10 years. Audio
Dancing to Good Vibrations
How is music therapy helping new migrants settle into our largest city? Audio
Dancing to Good Vibrations
How is music therapy helping new migrants settle into our largest city?
AudioIslamic State: Motivations and Implications for New Zealand
A public forum at Parliament's Grand Hall organised by Diplosphere on the rise of the self-styled Islamic State and whether New Zealand's decision this week to send troops to Iraq can help to address… Audio
Playing Favourites with Tayo Aluko
Nigerian-born, UK-based writer and performer of Call Mr Robeson: a Life with Songs, based on the musical career and political activism of the US singer Paul Robeson.
You can also listen to a 1998… Audio
John McLeod: modern peacekeeping
Cross-agency Defence Force lead for the 2015 Gallipoli commemoration, and author of Elusive Peace: a Kiwi Peacekeeper in Angola, about his time as a United Nations Military Observer in 1998. Audio
Bernard Haykel: Islamic State
Professor of Near Eastern Studies, Director of the Institute for Transregional Studies at Princeton University, and a leading expert on the theology of Islamic State. Audio
Chris Clarke: mideast crisis
CEO of World Vision in New Zealand who recently visited Iraqi Kurdistan and Lebanon, in advance of the launch of the Syrian refugee appeal on 7 March. Audio
Marlborough business fined for not paying migrant worker
A Marlborough business has been ordered to pay more than $20,000 dollars in unpaid wages to a migrant worker. Audio
Residency bid hampered by poor advice - Chilean family
A Chilean family taking refuge in a Christchurch church after Immigration New Zealand threatened to deport them says they have battled to gain residency for several years with no luck. Audio
Family facing deportation seeks refuge in church
A Chilean family has sought refuge in a Christchurch church after Immigration New Zealand threatened them with deportation. Audio
David Isaacs
A Sydney paediatrican has been so shocked by what he saw at the detention centre on Nauru, he has decided to speak out about it, despite the contracts he signed before working on the island. The… Audio
Climate refugee
Climate refugee Ioane Teitiota is seeking asylum in NZ. His case is a step closer to being heard by the Supreme Court and it's garnering further international attention. Audio
Howard Moody: musical polymath
British baroque continuo specialist, composer, and conductor, who is visiting New Zealand for the Opera in a Days Bay Garden production of La Calisto by Cavalli. Audio
