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This report reviews the international and New Zealand literatures on the interaction between enhancing cross-border trade and investment, through negotiations and agreements, and international migration.
As part of the Economic Impacts of Immigration working paper series, this research evaluates what draws migrants to live in particular areas and how these patterns of settlement have changed over time.
This paper investigates the relationship between changes in population size and housing sale prices and rents in local areas. Population change is broken down into new immigrants, New Zealanders returning from abroad, and New Zealanders and previous immigrants moving from other regions within New Zealand. Data is combined from the 1991 to 2006 censuses, Quotable Value New Zealand, and the Department of Building and Housing.
A descriptive analysis of trends using the 1991 to 2006 censuses found that the number of new households being created between censuses has been relatively stable (ranging from 80,000 between 1996 and 2001 to 109,000 between 2001 and 2006).
This review provides a description of policies and practices regarding refugee resettlement relating to the OECD and the European Union, with an emphasis on UNHCR and the following countries: Australia, Canada, Denmark, Finland, Ireland, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Sweden, United Kingdom and United States of America. It also summarises available evidence from previous reviews of policy and practice to identify factors that contribute to the success or failure of resettlement policy and practice.
This report details the findings from the 2007 Settlement Experience Feedback Survey (SEFS) of migrants who took up residence in New Zealand through the Skilled/Business Stream from January 2006 to June 2006. The survey is sent out to these migrants 12 months after residence approval or arrival into New Zealand. Therefore, these migrants were surveyed from 1 January 2007 to 31 June 2007. This report also contains information on trends (from 2005 to 2007) on the key settlement outcomes of principal applicants.
This study focuses on three main questions:
- In the period 1986 to 2006, how has the mix of doctors changed in terms of sex and whether born in New Zealand?
- How have the living arrangements for doctors changed over this time period; and
- If in a couple, how have the educational and employment status of partners changed?
On 19 May 2008 the first release is taking place of the first results from the LisNZ (Longitudinal Immigration Survey: New Zealand). This release is by Statistics New Zealand and is a milestone in our ability to monitor outcomes of permanent residents to New Zealand. This report provides a good summary of the outcomes being achieved by migrants six months after arrival. Subsequent data releases will take place at 18 months after residence uptake and finally at 3 years.
This report is the seventh in a series produced annually to provide information about trends in temporary and permanent migration to New Zealand. This report provides data for the 2006/07 financial year, with a special feature on major immigration policy changes from 1986 to the present.
The Ministry of Education, in partnership with the Department of Labour, is releasing its report on the results of the second national survey of international students. The survey is designed to act as a barometer on New Zealand’s international student market providing valuable feedback on students’ satisfaction, experiences, thoughts, and perspectives.
The information gathered will:
- assist education providers to review their services and make provision to better support international students in the future
- support policy development to guide government’s direction, priorities, and funding for international education
- identify areas of further research.
Annotated bibliography of New Zealand literature on migrant and refugee youth
This annotated biography provides a comprehensive account of the current evidence on settlement and social inclusion as it relates to young people from migrant and refugee backgrounds in New Zealand. A key aim of the bibliography is the identification of factors that facilitate or act as barriers to the successful settlement and social inclusion of these young people.
The experiences of migrant youth: A generational analysis
This research is part of a larger international project, the International Comparative Study of Ethno-Cultural Youth, which relies on survey methodology to examine a range of intracultural and intercultural variables and both psychological and social domains of adaptation. This present report is based on a subset of the New Zealand data and provides a generational analysis of the experiences of migrant youth, including the first generation, the 1.5 generation, and the second generation.
Settlement Patterns and the Geographic Mobility of Recent Migrants to New Zealand
This paper uses census data to examine the characteristics of local areas that attract new migrants and gauges the extent to which migrants are choosing to settle where there are the best labour market opportunities as opposed to where there are already established migrant networks.
The research team can be contacted by email on research@dol.govt.nz.