Lockdown. It’s hard managing a household and home-schooling when your first language is not English.

DR Nelly Martin-Anatias

DR Nelly Martin-Anatias Source: Supplied

The rules of New Zealand’s lockdown greatly impacted on Indonesian communities, particularly the women.


Lockdown in New Zealand showed the importance of government’s understanding migrant communities.
The Aotearoa NZ lockdown: Both the government and the people participate in eliminating the coronavirus. Source: Photo courtesy Dr Nelly Martin-Anatias, Sep 2020
Dr Nelly Martin-Anatias from Auckland University of Technology is in a team of researches who are investigating the impact of lockdown in New Zealand.  She found that the rules of lockdown should have considered the cultural and linguistic differences.

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