{"id":17435,"date":"2020-04-22T12:40:23","date_gmt":"2020-04-22T03:40:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/apr\/22\/migrants-stranded-in-queenstown-as-new-zealand-lockdown-sparks-refugee-crisis"},"modified":"2020-04-22T12:40:23","modified_gmt":"2020-04-22T03:40:23","slug":"migrants-stranded-in-queenstown-as-new-zealand-lockdown-sparks-refugee-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=17435","title":{"rendered":"Migrants stranded in Queenstown as New Zealand lockdown sparks &#8216;refugee crisis&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thousands of overseas workers are marooned by the country\u2019s strict curbs without pay amid warning of \u2018unprecedented welfare crisis\u2019<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2020\/apr\/22\/coronavirus-live-news-un-warns-of-biblical-famine-as-white-house-prepares-immigration-halt\">Coronavirus updates<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Thousands of migrants are stranded in the resort capital of Queenstown, unable to get home and unable to earn a living during the coronavirus lockdown.<\/p>\n<p>New Zealand has been in level-four lockdown for a month, meaning no one can leave their homes except to fetch essential supplies, or for a brief respite of exercise.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/apr\/22\/migrants-stranded-in-queenstown-as-new-zealand-lockdown-sparks-refugee-crisis\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thousands of overseas workers are marooned by the country\u2019s strict curbs without pay amid warning of \u2018unprecedented welfare crisis\u2019Coronavirus updatesThousands of migrants are stranded in the resort capital of Queenstown, unable to get home and unable &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,1069,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-coronavirus-outbreak","category-new-zealand"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17435"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17435\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17436,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17435\/revisions\/17436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}