Amber Kale facilitated a project with 12 former refugee women and girls from Myanmar to explore how they build new emotional attachments to places of settlement. Amber Kale is halfway through her PhD in Human Geography at Victoria University where she was studying refugee resettlement in Nelson. Kale was also able to map out the places that the Chin and Kayan refugees and their families go to feel a positive emotional connection. SUPPLIED/JASMIN KALE Kale used the experiences of Wellington's refugee community to inspire a mural artwork as part of her thesis. Kale said the concept of place-attachment was not a large part of the New Zealand refugee resettlement process.

Source: Stuff March 21, 2019 15:56 UTC