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Mia Toon - The challenges of migration impacts and influences on societies.

Year 6 Exhibition Central Idea: The challenges of migration impacts and influences on societies. My line of inquiry: Urbanization can challenge traditional identity

Key Concepts: Change, Causation and Form By Mia Toon September 2015 1

Mia Toon - The challenges of migration impacts and influences on societies.

Introduction The world is facing one of the biggest mass migrations of people since World War Two. The war in Syria has displaced over 4 million people trying to find peace and safety looking for a new home, a new country and somewhere to belong. Imagine you were one of these refugees with no home, fleeing Syria and trying to get to Greece, England or Germany. Think of all the changes you might face and there will be many questions you ask yourselves. Will the new country be able to accommodate for so many refugees? Will there be over-‐population in towns and no place for refugees to go? But when you get there will it be, the best time of their lives or will it be the worst? I present the findings of my inquiry: Urbanization can challenge traditional identity. Let’s begin the refugee journey. 4

Mia Toon - The challenges of migration impacts and influences on societies.

What is urbanization? Urbanisation is word used to describe when people move from rural to urban areas of the country to live. Rural areas are the country and urban areas are towns or cities. If there are too many people moving into towns, there may not be enough new jobs for them all. There are only so many houses built in each town. If there are too many people in a particular town, there may not be enough houses for all families to live in. Some people may need to live on the streets. If there are too many people in one town and there may not be enough food for everyone. The food that is available will have higher prices because the food is limited and there is not enough. This is important because the issues of urbanisation effects refugee's moving from one place to a nether. Urbanisation for the Maori Urbanisation occurred in New Zealand in the 1950’s when Maori started to move from the rural areas into the urban areas. In the early 1950’s 75% of all Maori lived in the country working mainly on farms and in local industry. Over the next 15 years large numbers of Maori moved from their tradition Marae into the cities and town because of greater opportunities and jobs. The Government of the time encouraged the Maori to move by setting up the Department of Maori Affairs which had an “Urban Relocation” programmer to support this. By the end of the 1960’s 75% of all Maori now lived in cities, working mainly in factories. This movement from rural to urban living created challenges for Maori. The Maori had poor skills and were generally only able to work in unskilled jobs that were poorly paid. There was a lack of housing and a problem with language. At this time Maori was the main language spoken and many had poor English skills. Maori were encouraged to embrace their new way of living and to speak English. To help Maori hold onto their identity sports and cultural groups were set up where Maori could speak their own language and mix with other Maori. Maori churches were set up where Christian services were held in Maori. Later in the 80’s Maori Language Pre-‐schools “Kohanga Reo “were set up and later total immersion Maori schools. The graph below shows that over time Maori people moving from the country to urban areas. In 1936 10% of Māori people lived in urban areas. 64 years later in 2000 there is now 80% of Māori people lived in urban areas. The graph below shows that over time Maori people moving from the country to urban towns. In 1936 10% of Māori people lived in urban areas. 64 years later in 2000 there were 80% of Māori people lived in urban areas.

Mia Toon - The challenges of migration impacts and influences on societies.

How do you hold on to your identity? To know what traditional identity is, I looked at what holding identity was: Holding onto cultural identity is important for migrants and refugees. An understanding of where you have come from is important because then you know your history, your language and the things that make you, you. If you are a refugee, you may lose your identity as you move from place to place. Some refugees practise their culture and do the traditional things they do in their other country. They are still holding onto their traditional identity. There are a number of refugee organisations in New Zealand that help refugees and migrants settle in New Zealand. One of them is the family Reunification Trust. The Family Reunification Trust has been helping refugees for 10 years. They have raised well over $3 million dollars for refugees. The Family Reunification Trust has now payed for more than 500 people and their families to come to New Zealand. The cost to come to New Zealand is $2000 per person. When refugees flee they mostly need help to get their families' to New Zealand. Some refugees have to leave their family and loved ones in their original countries because of the cost of travelling to New Zealand. Some children are sad because their mum and dad got killed by war or the child was sent away from their mum and dad. The Family Reunification Trust is helping refugees that are having problems getting their families to New Zealand. The Family Reunification Trust have had in 333 applications in Wellington since the trust was first set up. The trust always helps families who say "help our family members are still in the refugee camp". Amanda Calder works at The Family Reunification Trust, Amanda Calder was originally a refugee herself and in 2013 she helped 30 adults and 34 children find their families. Amanda Colder and the Family Reunification Trust works closely with: • • • • • • • 6

New Zealand Red Cross -‐ Refugee Services English Language Partners Wellington Refugee Trauma Recovery Change Makers Refugee Forum Interpreting Wellington Multicultural Learning and Support Services Community Law Wellington and Hutt Valley

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This is a picture of Amanda Calder 2014 community award: (Amanda is the third person from the left)

The family Reunification Trust awards that Amanda won: Refugee's and human rights awards: Human right awards:

Refugee's and human rights awards:

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(This is the Family Reunification Trusts mane Picture.

(http://refugeefamilyreunificationtrust.org.nz/news.php )

An example of someone who they have helped is Faduma. In 1988, in Somalia during the war, Faduma and his family were forced to flee to an Ethiopian refugee camp where they lived there for more than 10 years. The mother with Three children but there was not a lot of food, water and shelter. In 1997 the UNHOR took notice that the three children and the mother there in a situation so the New Zealand government accepted the three children and the mother under the programme. They arrived at 1999 and were supported by The Family Reunification Trust. Another family they have helped came to New Zealand with 9 children of which 3 of them were adopted children. These adopted children were originally from another country and had moved lots of times. They moved to new towns which have different traditions, religions and all they believe in. They celebrate different cultural days and in different ways. They also have different clothing, different food, different languages and different ways of living. That is because each country have their own traditional identity.

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There are other agencies that help refugees settle in New Zealand. Some example of these are UNICEF, Te Papa with their collections for refugees, Good in the Hood (Z petrol) who raised money for refugees. Te Papa also has a permanent display that rotates stories about refugees and migrants coming to New Zealand. It tells stories about the challenges refugees have faced coming to New Zealand and the ways they have tried to hold ono their identity. At QMC, the Year 9's study refugees and they are help refugees by making wool blankets and more wool things. They do a fund raiser every year to get money for the refugees and get wool and more thing to make blankets.

Te papa donate: In 2010 I found out that Te papa have donated some gifts for the refugee's for the refugee camps. The Te Papa Museum, in Tongarewe, has donated a lot of presents for the refugee families that have lost family members. In December 2010 the Te papa in Tongarewe looked up the trust and donated a lot of gifts of Christmas time. The cool Christmas tree was set up in Te papa foyer, and the cool presents appeared and were given to the refugee families for Christmas. This is the charismas tree with the presents on it. (http://refugeefamilyreunificationtrust.org.nz/donate.php)

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How can you help? Post a donation to the refugee's at the family Reunification Trust at PO Box 27342 Marion Square in Wellington 6141. Send an Email to acalder@xtra.co.nz How do you lose your identity? To know what holding identity was I had to know what losing identity was: It is easy to lose your identity when you move from one country to another. If you are adopted you may not know your history and cultural traditions. This can happen more often if you have been using a false identity and have been adopted. Some refugees choose to try new cultural traditions from the new country rather than keep their old traditions. Another way of losing your identity is if you have lost your family so there is no-‐one to learn the cultural of your own country from or learn the language from. Many refugees want to learn the host country language and not retain their old one. The refugees may have arrived with no cultural possessions and identity. When a refugee arrives in the new country, they may have Bad memory from the past so want to embrace the new culture and they want to be a part of the new county so take a counties culture. They want to fit in and not stand out. 4000 refugees a month in the mean countries which is: This is the refugee that come in 4 years. Country United States France Germany Canada Sweden United Kingdom Italy Belgium Greece Switzerland 11.Austria 12.Netherlands 13.Norway Turkey Australia Poland Spain Cyprus Finland Israel South Africa 10

Total asylum seekers 2007 to 2011 278,850 refugees 269,666 refugees 265,767 refugees 147,000 refugees 146,380 refugees 138,350 refugees 106,140 refugees 88,300 refugees 80,500 refugees 74,900 refugees 66,020 refugees 60,330 refugees 57,300 refugees 53,710 refugees 40,320 refugees 36,720 refugees 21,340 refugees 18,840 refugees 18,470 refugees 17,175 refugees 16,900 refugees

Mia Toon - The challenges of migration impacts and influences on societies.

Denmark Hungary Ireland Malta Russia Japan Czech Republic Slovakia Romania Bulgaria Luxembourg South Korea Croatia New Zealand Slovenia Lithuania Macedonia Portugal Bosnia and Herzegovina Latvia Liechtenstein Iceland 44. Montenegro Estonia Albania Total is:

16,810 refugees 15,010 refugees 13,780 refugees 8,370 refugees 8,000 refugees 6,880 refugees 5,930 refugees 5,360 refugees 5,250 refugees 4,500 refugees 4,270 refugees 2,840 refugees 1,610 refugees 1,490 refugees 1,410 refugees 1,340 refugees 1,090 refugees 960 refugees 810 refugees 530 refugees 530 refugees 280 refugees 280 refugees 160 refugees 70 refugees 1,942,520 refugees come in 4 years

The investigation lead me to a number of reports in the paper about refugees. The Syrian refugee problem is particularly important at the moment. This is information from two of the articles. The NZ PM Refugee problems: The prime minister is being pressured because people are saying the prime minister is not letting in a enough refugee's in. but will the prime minister let more in or not let anymore?. Going to take more refugees in: The prime minister has allowed hundreds more Syria refugee's in. because of what happened in World War 2 and he does not want it to happen again. (http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/71789199/prime-‐minister-‐bows-‐to-‐pressure-‐to-‐accept-‐more-‐ refugees) and ( http://www.msn.com/en-‐nz/news/national/refugee-‐crisis-‐pm-‐under-‐pressure/ar-‐ AAdUAiN?ocid=spartandhp ) Case study: When I was looking for information, I found this case study about fingerprinting and losing identity. This is in an airport in Australia that were doing Fingerprinting and Scanning: they are doing finger prints so no bad people come to the country because Australia is part of a biometric programme to Strengthen Border security and their identity. The system will help NZ Strengthen border security by helping identity when 11

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people are immigration and no people with Criminal Histories or those using false identities. The biometric Programme has to find new places to do finger prints like the UK, Canada and The US. I also watched a number of videos about refugees that helped me think about the impact of becoming a refugee. Girl video and the refugee camp: The loving Ms Miller helped me find this video about a beautiful girl that as gone through terrible things: This video shows how war is disrupting lives and it sets the Syrian conflict in England. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RBQ-‐IoHfimQ) Refugee camp This video is like the same but it is about how you can help the refugee’s: This video is about a Syria camp and the save the children group. The save the children group is helping the refugee's in the camp and giving them food. (http://www.savethechildren.org.uk/save-‐syria-‐ children?utm_campaign=Syria&utm_medium=YouTube&utm_source=syriayt1&sisearchengine=343&siprod uct=syriayt1) Conclusion This the end of our journey. I have found out that urbanisation has a big impact on people retaining their traditional identity. Whether people move from the country or another land, there are challenges for them to keep their culture alive. Refugees have the biggest problem keeping their identity because they often have to flee their country with nothing to remember their culture by. They may have lost their families, language and be overwhelmed by their new country. In New Zealand the Prime Minister is letting in more refugees and Amanda Calder is still helping refugees today with the family Reunification Trust. Finally the refugees are having more help and I hope more people will help them too because when children refugees came to the country they are traumatised and overwhelmed over what they have seen. They have seen things we have not seen in are wildest dreams. So step up and help the refugees and their families. The refugees need you and we need them. People and web sites that helped me Ms Miller helped me. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Refugee http://refugeefamilyreunificationtrust.org.nz/index.php http://www.immigration.govt.nz/migrant/general/generalinformation/Identitymanagement/fccnedia.htm