Story: Immigration regulation

More links and websites

• 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.

• Understanding Dawn Raids

  Digital hub to support the telling of Pacific people’s historical stories, focusing on the Dawn Raids of the 1970s.

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.