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040 _aAFVC
100 _aGray, Claire
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245 _a“You look a little bit dark for my liking” :
_cClaire Gray and Yvonne Crichton-Hill
_bMāori and Pasifika women’s experiences of welfare receipt in Aotearoa New Zealand
260 _bAotearoa New Zealand Association of Social Workers,
_c2019
500 _aAotearoa New Zealand Social Work, 2019, 31(1): 5-16
520 _aINTRODUCTION: Based on empirical research with Māori and Pasifika lone mothers, this article considers the way that discourses of ethnicity and welfare combine to shape the lived experience of welfare receipt. METHOD: Drawing from 16 focus groups and interviews conducted in 2014 throughout Aotearoa New Zealand with women receiving Sole Parent Support, we analyse the way participants spoke of their experiences with Work and Income New Zealand. FINDINGS: Our findings indicate that the negative experiences related to the receipt of welfare in New Zealand are intensified for women who identify ethnically as Māori or Pasifika. Many of the women who took part in the research attributed poor treatment, including the denial of access to welfare entitlements, to their ethnicity. Participants spoke of avoiding visits to welfare offices because of the racism they anticipated experiencing in these spaces. CONCLUSIONS: There are significant implications for these findings. We argue that identifying as Māori or Pasifika can have consequences in relation to accessing welfare entitlements and that ethnicity may negatively influence interactions within welfare offices in Aotearoa New Zealand. (Authors' abstract). Record #6256
650 _aATTITUDES
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650 5 _aECONOMIC ASPECTS
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650 _aETHNICITY
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650 _aMĀORI
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650 _aMOTHERS
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650 _aPACIFIC PEOPLES
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650 _aPASIFIKA
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650 _aSOCIAL WELFARE
_9559
650 _aWOMEN
_9645
650 _aMĀMĀ
_95689
650 _aRANGAHAU MĀORI
_95532
650 _aTOKO I TE ORA
_95247
650 _2WĀHINE
650 _aWHAKAHĀWEA IWI
_97831
651 4 _aNEW ZEALAND
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700 _aCrichton-Hill, Yvonne
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773 0 _tAotearoa New Zealand Social Work, 2019, 31(1): 5-16
830 _aAotearoa New Zealand Social Work
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856 _uhttps://anzswjournal.nz/anzsw/article/view/500
942 _cARTICLE
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