UNESCO Chair on Refugee Integration through Education, Language and Arts

Amber Kale

Amber Kale is a PhD candidate in Human Geography at Victoria University of Wellington, School of Geography, Environment and Earth Sciences. Her research explores processes of refugee resettlement and social integration in New Zealand, in particular focusing on theories of displacement, place-attachment, citizenship, identity and belonging. Over the past few years her research has adopted a scholar activist orientation, drawing on participatory approaches, sensory methodologies, and art practice to engage local refugee background communities and host societies in collaborative social science research which aims to enable more equitable social outcomes for resettling refugees.

She visited the UNESCO Chair team on 8-16 September 2018.

For more information, please visit her student profile
Amber's publications on Google Scholar