Patsy Wong’s resignation has resulted in a March by-election having to be held in the Botany constituency, where migrants make up more than half of the voters. Rather than use a mainstream party to make the Chinese migrant voice heard in parliament action was taken to form a New Citizen Party. The New Citizen Party…
Our popular Migrant Tales series is now running into chapter 5. The latest tale in the series was published today, a copy of which appears below. More Migrant Tales may be found be clicking on any of the chapters under the tab Migrant Tales – Immigrant Stories NZ at the top of this page. This…
Readers may remember one of our Migrants’ Tales – “ A Better Life for the Kids” Written by Steve, he spoke about a widespread and insidious problem within schools in New Zealand – bullying. When his children were bullied at a fee paying school the school’s way of dealing with the problem seemed to be…
(Scroll down for update – 2 September 2010) Many times we have written about how ‘jobs for kiwis’ type policies were being used to make immigrants leave NZ, despite there being a shortage of local labour and how that was harming business. But, what’s really perverse is that NZ continues to try to attract paying…
Continuing in our series of Migrants’ Tales – first hand accounts of the migrant experience in New Zealand, taken from locations around the net. Today’s tale is taken from an immigration forum, written by the wife of a carpenter. The couple moved from Guernsey to Blenheim, but found work in very short supply and that…
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