Zealandia - Season 1 Episode 9 Deportees of Tonga: Gangsters in Paradise
In Deportees of Tonga: Gangsters in Paradise, VICE embeds with four Tongan nationals who have been sent back to the tiny island nation where they were born after serving prison time in New Zealand and the United States. Former gang members, they often struggle to reconnect with the culture, the language, and the people. They are haunted by the stigma of their criminal pasts, which casts a pall over their employment prospects and puts a barrier between them and their compatriots. Government support for returnees is non-existent, wages are low, and with Tonga in the midst of a methamphetamine crisis, the temptations to revert to the lives of crime they hoped to leave behind when they left prison are high.Read Less
First Air Date: May 07, 2017
Last Air date: Feb 12, 2019
Season: 1 Season
Episode: 9 Episode
Runtime: 26 minutes
IMDb: 10.00/10 by 1.00 users
Popularity: 1.1898
Language: English
Keyword : new zealand
Season
Season 1
Episode
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Last Man of Mahana
New Zealand's Deadly Synthetic Drugs Epidemic
Lost Boys of Taranaki
Alien Weaponry: Thrash Metal and Te Reo Maori
Lethal Ladies: New Zealand’s Female Fighters
Inside Sex Work in New Zealand
Women in the House
Deportees of Tonga: Gangsters in Paradise
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