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  • New Zealand Immigration Service

    The website of the Immigration Service sets out the requirements for different classes of intending immigrants, and explains the procedures for obtaining permission to settle in New Zealand.

  • The Office of Ethnic Affairs

    The website of the Office of Ethnic Affairs offers information for ethnic groups in New Zealand, including an interpreting service and a feature on the Chinese poll tax.

More suggestions and sources

    • Greif, Stuart William, ed. Immigration and national identity in New Zealand: one people, two peoples, many peoples? Palmerston North: Dunmore, 1995.

    • McKinnon, Malcolm. Immigrants and citizens: New Zealanders and Asian immigration in historical context. Wellington: Institute of Policy Studies, Victoria University of Wellington, 1996.

    • Moloughney, Brian, and John Stenhouse. ‘“Drug-besotten, sin-begotten fiends of filth”: New Zealanders and the Oriental other, 1850–1920.’ New Zealand Journal of History 33, no. 1 (1999): 43–64.

    • Murphy, Nigel. The poll-tax in New Zealand: a research paper commissioned by the New Zealand Chinese Association. Wellington: Office of Ethnic Affairs, 2002.

    • O’Connor, P. S. ‘Keeping New Zealand white, 1908–1920.’ New Zealand Journal of History 2, no. 1 (1968): 42–65.

    • Pearson, David. A dream deferred: the origins of ethnic conflict in New Zealand. Wellington: Allen & Unwin, 1990.



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