{"id":48260,"date":"2022-09-07T11:41:22","date_gmt":"2022-09-07T02:41:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/sep\/07\/how-the-politics-of-love-could-revolutionise-new-zealands-refugee-policy"},"modified":"2022-09-07T11:41:22","modified_gmt":"2022-09-07T02:41:22","slug":"how-the-politics-of-love-could-revolutionise-new-zealands-refugee-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=48260","title":{"rendered":"How the politics of love could revolutionise New Zealand\u2019s refugee policy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We like to think we help those in need, but the truth is we could and should be doing much more for the world\u2019s displaced people<\/p>\n<p>Our world is careening into crisis. In May this year, the United Nations\u2019 refugee agency announced that, for the first time, the number of forcibly displaced people worldwide <a href=\"https:\/\/www.unhcr.org\/refugee-statistics\/insights\/explainers\/100-million-forcibly-displaced.html\">has reached 100 million<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>When 1 in 78 people globally have been forced to flee their homes, and as climate change <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2022\/aug\/18\/century-climate-crisis-migration-why-we-need-plan-great-upheaval\">threatens to displace more than 1 billion more of us by 2050<\/a>, we need to ask ourselves: is our current refugee policy adequate?<\/p>\n<p><em>Tamkeen Saeid is a refugee from Afghanistan who works as a lawyer in New Zealand<br \/><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Philip McKibbin is a New Zealand writer<\/em><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/sep\/07\/how-the-politics-of-love-could-revolutionise-new-zealands-refugee-policy\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We like to think we help those in need, but the truth is we could and should be doing much more for the world\u2019s displaced peopleOur world is careening into crisis. In May this year, the United Nations\u2019 refugee agency announced that, for the first time,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3311,"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":[41,56,933,494,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-new-zealand","category-new-zealand-politics","category-refugees","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48260","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\/3311"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48260"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48260\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48261,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48260\/revisions\/48261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}