Indian community leader backs call to temporarily ban travellers from India Newshub 5 hrs ago Dan Satherley, Emma Stanford © Video - The AM Show; Images - Getty Related video: Kiwi who flew to India to look after sick mother shocked by Government s travel ban.
The Indian community is split over the Government s controversial move to suspend entry to New Zealand for travellers from India, after a spike in COVID-19 cases at the border.
India is currently experiencing a rapid increase in infections and deaths - the number of reported cases each day has multiplied by six in the past few weeks, and deaths by a similar amount.
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Debbie Donnelly s mother Setsuko moved to New Zealand from Japan in the 1950s. While she thrived and co-founded the Japan Society in Wellington, people were not always nice to her and at times, she was on the receiving end of racism.
The ‘forever foreigner’ concept is often only applied to migrants of colour, who then face social stigma, stereotypes and racism in Aotearoa. Mandy Te investigates the phenomenon and how it impacts on Kiwi who are made to feel like strangers in their own homeland. As a group of Taiko drummers performed at a festival in Porirua, Debbie Donnelly remembers a stranger turning to her and saying “they re not like us”.
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