Volunteers and Sponsors: A Catalyst for Refugee Integration?
Migration Policy Institute, 2019.
The report offers a few ways in which policymakers can help fill gaps, including by creating policy frameworks that allow agencies to engage volunteers or sponsors where they would add the most value; and provide dedicated resources to establish and maintain effective community engagement.
Cultural Connections – Migrants and Volunteering in New Zealand
Chuah, Eric. Cultural Connections, 2018.
In this document, Cultural Connections, a multicultural research and consulting firm, undertook a quantitative survey with migrant communities through their networks to help VNZ understand how new migrants engage with volunteering. With a better understanding of the issue and opportunities it is possible to develop a programme of work that is more likely to have positive results.
MAVA Engaging Volunteers from Diverse and Immigrant Communities
Joyslin, Lisa. Minnesota Association for Volunteer Administration, 2018.
This article provides eight different strategies that volunteer organisations can use to recruit for volunteers from diverse ethnic backgrounds.
Source of growth in ethnic communities
The New Zealand Association Resource Centre. April 2013.
This article states that voluntary membership-based organisations can play a meaningful role in breaking down barriers and aiding the assimilation and integration of new citizens. Excerpt: “At a time when many collective entities are experiencing static or declining numbers and suffer from a lack of active volunteers they could seriously consider the migrant population as an available pool of potential members.”
A Common Purpose – Formal Volunteering and Cultural Diversity
Robinson, Fran. Volunteering WA, 2012.
This article contains a resource booklet for agencies and groups involving volunteers that provides information on FAQ’s they may have on how to further increase the diversity of their volunteers. The booklet also includes 20 country profiles, providing information on the structure of volunteering in each country and cultural facts relevant to volunteering.
Targeted population sport engagement model – Harbour Sport
ActivAsian, June 2010.
The sport engagement model is a model that has been developed to support sports organisations to effectively engage with ethnic communities. It is a check list with a brief explanation supporting each point.
Stories of engagement between mentors and Wellington’s refugee communities
Clements, Elizabeth; Cicak, Branka. Volunteer Wellington & Steele Roberts, 2010.
In 2006, Volunteer Wellington, Changemakers Refugee Forum and the Wellington Community Law Centre set up a mentoring project for Wellington’s refugee communities. This book documents the project, threading its way through the stories of the project team and the participants.
An online copy of this document is currently unavailable.
Enabling integration : building social capital through volunteering
Hubscher, Ruth. Just change, February 2008.
On page 28, this article reflects on the contribution ESOL Home Tutor volunteers make to the social capital of NZ. It also looks at the benefits for both the migrant and the volunteer in the relationship they build together through English second language tutoring.
The first door that opened: experiences of migrants in Wellington’s volunteer sector.
Gray, Rebecca. Volunteer Wellington & Steele Roberts, 2008.
This document was originally presented as the author’s thesis (M.A. Applied)–Victoria University of Wellington, 2005.
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Perceived benefits: views of volunteers in a joint health service/consumer hospital library, a genealogy library and a refugee and migrant centre, with a particular focus on non-English speaking background (NESB) volunteers
Anderson, Valerie Grace. Victoria University, 2006.
This is a thesis/dissertation submitted to the School of Information Management Victoria University of Wellington in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Library and Information Studies.
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