Visas Now ! : Aotearoa’s response to global refugee emergencies

Visas Now! Aotearoa’s response to global refugee emergencies zooms in on the high-stakes, one off intakes of Syrians, Afghans and Ukrainians in the past decade. The book also includes nine people who share how their communities came together to seek emergency refugee intakes, including some whose calls went unanswered. The book is essential reading for anyone interested in solidarity and advocating for humanitarian protection in a time of crisis.

With a foreword by Ibrahim Omer; featuring contributions from Behrouz Boochani, Rabia Talal Almbaid, Batool Arif and Dr Arif Ali, Dr Tariq Habibyar, Kate Turska, and Rizwangul NurMuhammad; and photographs by Ehsan Hazaveh.

Author biography

Dr Murdoch Stephens founded the successful Double the Refugee Quota campaign in 2013. Since then he has worked as a researcher and policy expert for universities and not for profits. He is an author, publisher and Fulbright Scholar. His previous non-fiction includes the 2018 book Doing Our Bit: the campaign to double the refugee quota.

Ibrahim Omer came to New Zealand as a quota refugee in 2008, In 2020 he was elected as a Member of Parliament.