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Tupou Manapori, was a schoolteacher, former Manukau City Councillor and chairwoman of the Council’s Pacific Island Advisory Committee. Born in Manihiki, Rarotonga, she moved to New Zealand in 1968.

In this recording, Tupou recounts her experiences as a young, Pacific Island immigrant, and talks about the ‘Dawn Raids’ in the 1970s. This interview was conducted in 2010 by Dionne Christian.

Oral history interview, Auckland Libraries Heritage Collections MNP-OH-32
https://kura.aucklandlibraries.govt.nz/digital/collection/oralhistory/id/3287/rec/3

Photograph reproduced by courtesy of Stuff Limited. Auckland Libraries Heritage Collections Footprints 00676

Frank Amoah was the manager and Social Worker at the African Welfare Service Trust when this interview was conducted. Here he talks about coming to New Zealand from Ghana at the age of nineteen and the establishment of the African Welfare Service Trust.

Oral history interview, Auckland Libraries Heritage Collections OH-1252-008
https://kura.aucklandlibraries.govt.nz/digital/collection/oralhistory/id/1698/rec/2

Kudakwashe Tuwe, the former President of the Waitakere Ethnic Board, describes his migrant experience of coming to NZ about 10 years ago from Zimbabwe when the political situation worsened there. This interview was conducted in 2014 by Smita Biswas.

Oral history interview, Auckland Libraries Heritage Collections OH-1163-003.
https://kura.aucklandlibraries.govt.nz/digital/collection/oralhistory/id/1381/rec/2

In 2017 Auckland Libraries recorded the stories of the Auckland Regional Migrant Services. Bulbala (Ayesha) Slimankhil describes her life in Afghanistan under the Taliban and compares it with her new life in New Zealand. She talks about her first impressions and struggles after immigrating.

Oral history interview, Auckland Libraries Heritage Collections OH-1278-005
https://kura.aucklandlibraries.govt.nz/digital/collection/oralhistory/id/1336/rec/1

In this track, we hear from Boaz Habib a committee member of Waitakere Ethnic Board. He talks about his migrant experience arriving as a teenager in 1995 after growing up in Dubai and Pakistan where he was born.

He also discusses his first home, facing discrimination, and how meeting a diaspora of students from various ethnicities was important for him. This interview was conducted in 2014 by Smita Biswas.

Oral history interview, Auckland Libraries Heritage Collections OH-1163-001.
https://kura.aucklandlibraries.govt.nz/digital/collection/oralhistory/id/797/rec/2