Changes in Health Policy and Migrants, Refugees and Asylum Seekers in New Zealand
Changes in Health Policy and Migrants, Refugees and Asylum Seekers in New Zealand

Author(s): Grace Wong, Padmapriya Saravanakumar, Jagamaya Shrestha-Ranjit
Subject(s): Health and medicine and law, Migration Studies
Published by: Transnational Press London
Keywords: Changes; Health Policy; Migrants; Refugees; Asylum Seekers; New Zealand;
Summary/Abstract: New Zealand has a long history of migration, driven by the need for an able workforce. As well as economic migrants, the government operates a refugee quota system and has policy provisions for asylum seekers and undocumented migrants. The proportion of NZ’s population who were born overseas increased from 25.2% in 2013 to 27.4% in 2018 (Statistics NZ, 2013, 2019). More recent migrants originate from Asia and Europe than Middle Eastern, Latin American, and African (MELAA) countries, or the Pacific Islands.

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