Migrant case studies
Click on the links below for stories about new migrants that are making the most of their new home in New Zealand.
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“Jude was the key to my new life. I think if it wasn’t for her I would still be milking cows somewhere near Rakaia.”
Adela Cretiou is Romanian and even though it’s been over a year since then, the quietly spoken agricultural biologist shudders at the thought of her first job in New Zealand.
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The beauty of the Taranaki landscape is inspiring a young Irish designer as she establishes her own fashion label in her new home.
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The middle of dairy farming country in the heart of the North Island is one of the more unlikely places to find an ostrich farm. It’s an even more unlikely place to find a former stock market dealer from South Korea . But the small rural town of Galatea, in the Bay of Plenty, is where Hyo Sup Bae set up his ostrich farm five and a half years ago.
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A career in complementary medicine has brought Englishwoman Jane Lumb to New Zealand under a long term business visa. Jane and her husband Ian have lived in Wellington since June 2002, and she has established a business within Haight Ashbury Boutique salon in the centre of the city.
Page Last Updated: 01 May 2007