How to respond to typecasting --- The approach to responding to these stereotypes on refugees has been quite a challenge for many of us in recent years, often opposing the bad stereotypes of refugees with the ones where all refugees are angels. I like the approach used by NZ Red Cross a few years ago - which might have been a RCRC wide approach? - to say refugees are ordinary people who have faced extraordinary circumstances.

Source author: Murdoch Stephens murdoch.stephens@redcross.org.nz