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Laura Johnstone, PhD Candidate, Criminal Justice, University of Canterbury

Dawn raids never died: why formal apologies and restoring NZ citizenship are still not enough

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The dawn raids of the 1970s, when police descended on Pacific Island households in New Zealand’s main cities to find and deport “overstayers”, remain a scar on New Zealand’s collective memory.

So there was understandable celebration when Green MP Teanau Tuiono’s bill, which aims to overturn a particularly punitive piece of immigration law, passed its first reading in parliament in April this year.

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