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Article 1: Auckland doctor told to “go home to China”. (2020, February 5).
Newshub, reprinted from Radio New Zealand. (76 comments)
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Article 2: Muslim women say Islamophobia worse after Christchurch mosque
attack. (2019, June 14). Newshub. (143 comments)
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Article 3: Taika Waititi says New Zealand is “racist as”. (2018, April 9). Stuff.
(854 comments).
Web scraping was used to export all comments on each of the three articles from
Facebook into Microsoft Excel. A coding framework was developed and used to
analyse the data thematically. A summary of key themes from the media analysis are
provided in Appendix 2 and findings are integrated within the overview sections of
the report to complement interview and focus group data.
3.3.
Interviews - settlement service providers
Nine individual and four group interviews were conducted with representatives from
11 national and regional settlement support provider organisations located in urban
and rural locations across Aotearoa New Zealand.
The research team engaged with HRC and MBIE to identify and engage with
providers.
Individual and group interviews explored providers’ experiences, observations and
perspectives on migrants’ experiences of racism and discrimination, the drivers for
these attitudes and behaviours and potential for change.
3.4.
Focus groups – Māori, tauiwi and Pākehā
Twenty-eight focus groups were held with Māori, Pākehā and tauiwi migrants aged
18 years and older from different ethnicities, religious affiliations, visa types and
length of residence in Aotearoa New Zealand. Groups were held across five localities
covering urban and rural locations in Te Ika-a-Māui and Te Waipounamu.
A total of 210 participants representing 23 different ethnicities and religious
denominations contributed to focus group discussions (see Appendix 3 for a table
summarising the profile of participants for each focus group).
In August 2020, the COVID-19 return to lockdown in Auckland prevented the
remaining face-to-face focus groups from being conducted. Subsequent focus groups
arranged in Auckland or to be facilitated by Auckland staff were conducted via Zoom.
A total of 11 focus groups were facilitated via zoom and 17 focus groups were faceto-face.
Focus groups were approximately two to three hours long. The group discussions
were audio-recorded and transcribed, and all participants were provided with a $40
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