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Living the Tokelauan Way in New Zealand, 2009.

Social Policy Journal of New Zealand: Issue 35

Abstract
Previous qualitative research with Pacific families has highlighted the lack of “fit” between the state housing stock and its occupants. The housing conditions of Tokelauan people living in New Zealand have a significant impact on their wellbeing and health. We carried out qualitative research in partnership with the Wellington Tokelau Association to highlight the impact of the built environment on extended-family living, and in particular the impact on young people in the household. We sought their views by carrying out 20 in-depth interviews with young people, born in New Zealand, who live with their Tokelauan-born parents and grandparents. In this paper we discuss their views of health and the serious difficulties created by inappropriately sized and configured housing, but also highlight what the young people see as the many advantages of extended family living: a strong sense of cultural identity, enhanced fluency in the Tokelau language and strong social support, even if some risky behaviours are the source of arguments. Almost all the young people saw the advantages of living in their extended family as outweighing the evident disadvantages and hoped to repeat the pattern when they had children, but in better-designed houses.

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Tokelau Four Year Plan, October 2021

This document is one in a series of Four Year Plans for Pacific Island countries published by the
New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade. For the latest version please go to www.mfat.govt.nz
ISSN 2744-7278

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Ke Mau Ki Pale o Tokelau: Hold Fast To The Treasures of Tokelau; Navigating Tokelauan Agency In The Homeland And Diaspora, 2014 - Lesley Kehaunani Iaukea

My research looks at the Tokelauan educational platform in the homeland and in two diasporic communities located in New Zealand and Hawai‘i. Each geographic location has a different story to tell about the homeland and/or diaspora and different ways of showing native agency in certain political structures that are associated with the educational system. I highlight the pathway taken in each location as a culture aims to perpetuate Tokelauan language and
traditions via an Indigenous educational platform through force-driven issues beyond their control.