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1. Strypey (strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz)'s status on Saturday, 24-Nov-2018 01:06:08 EST Strypey

   Aotearoa (NZ) is a world leader in so many ways. Today I read about a pilot programme where local families sign up to invite refugee families to live in their neighborhoods. This has both practical and political advantages over traditional resettlement practice. When refugee families arrive, they know they are welcome, and that there are people who will help them get set up in their new home. They have a surrogate extended family to support them, and help them meet more of their new neighbours.

   1. Strypey (strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz)'s status on Saturday, 24-Nov-2018 01:13:07 EST Strypey

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      It's also better politically, because the arrival of refugees is the result of a local decision to invite them in. Even if that decision not unanimously agreed with, it's much harder to spin it as an imposition by faceless "globalist" bureaucracy at the national or international level, or a conspiracy of "replacement" by the ethnicity or religion refugees are (or e perceived to be) affiliated with.