Trans‐Tasman migration: New Zealanders’ explanations for their move

Green, Alison Edington; Power, Mary R.; Jang, Deannah M.

doi:10.1111/j.1745-7939.2008.00125.x

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“…Migration between Australia and New Zealand, also termed as trans‐Tasman migration, occurs in a setting of free mobility (CANZUK International, ; Green, Power, & Jang, ). Similar to the Finnish–Swedish context studied here, barriers to trans‐Tasman migration are low due the countries' geographic, cultural, and historic proximity.…”

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Circular migration in a context of free mobility: Evidence from linked population register data from Finland and Sweden

Weber

Saarela

2019

Population Space and Place

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Circular migration in settings of free mobility has received increasing policy attention. However, due to data constraints, little is known about the mechanisms underlying it. Using linked Finnish and Swedish register data that allow us to follow Finnish migrants across national borders, we analyse whether the determinants of circular migration differ from those of the first and return move. People move freely between Sweden and Finland, as they are in the common Nordic labour market. Event history analysis shows that many moves are temporary and short term. Moreover, the patterns of circular migration reflect those of the first emigration and first return, respectively. Swedish speakers and individuals who are not married are more prone to emigrate for the first and second time, whereas Finnish speakers and married individuals have a higher risk of return migration. This implies that circular migration may amplify demographic features related to emigration and return migration.

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Circular migration in a context of free mobility: Evidence from linked population register data from Finland and Sweden

Weber

Saarela

2019

Population Space and Place

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“…Further, older migrants face particular challenges in managing their ageing in place and SOC in the process of moving across geographic and cultural borders, in comparison with local residents who are well rooted in place (Li & Chong, ). Migration and settlement points to the need to delve into a SOC within the context of transnationalism, which describes migrants who build, maintain and reinforce multiple social and emotional interconnections in more than one country (Green, Power, & Jang, ).…”

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Multiple Senses of Community Among Older Chinese Migrants to New Zealand

Hodgetts

Sonn

2014

Community & Applied Soc Psy

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Existing literature suggests that successful ageing is linked to a sense of community (SOC) that is developed through shared daily practices. For migrant groups, SOC can extend across home and receiving countries. In order to understand the issue of successful ageing in place and multiple SOCs among older Chinese migrants, this paper investigated 32 older Chinese migrants' narratives of developing a SOC in their local and home communities. Findings suggest that a SOC can be viewed as constructed through practices such as neighbouring and supportive interactions within local contexts as well as engagement with the home country via new media. The findings provide insights into everyday practices central to the cultivation of a SOC among the participants whose engagements span the cultural spaces of China and New Zealand. For example, the use of media contributes to the participants' SOCs both in China and New Zealand. As a result, they live in a transnational community that can be understood as an ‘imagined’ community where the participants engage with significant, although absent, Chinese others. Living between China and New Zealand, between homes and between languages, the participants create identity ‘inbetweenness’ that is constructed at the intersection of interdependent, compatible and mutually reinforcing communities and spaces. The findings therefore extend conventional understandings of ageing migrant experiences that assume successful ageing and community participation occur in one locale to an understanding of multiple SOCs within the context of transnationalism. Copyright © 2013 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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“…These migrants have often spent some time in New Zealand, after leaving their island homelands in search of opportunities ashore, before further migrating to Australia. The specific movement of Pasifika between New Zealand and Australia is a part of a greater Trans‐Tasman migration flow that is discussed in depth by several studies (Green et al , 2008; Poot, 2010). As presented in Table 1, the number of Pasifika arriving in Australia has grown because places like Brisbane have become the new ‘land of milk and honey’ for New Zealand‐born Pasifika seeking improved living for themselves and their families.…”

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Pasifika diaspora connectivity and continuity with Pacific homelands: Material culture and spatial behaviour in Brisbane

Faleolo

2020

Australian J of Anthropology

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This paper presents an interesting discussion and analysis of Pasifika (specifically Tongan and Samoan) migrants in Brisbane, and the diverse adaptive cultural practices they use to promote a sense of wellbeing and cultural continuity in diaspora contexts. Pacific Island migrant perspectives of wellbeing and worldviews are linked to their spatial behaviour and material cultural adaptations within places like Brisbane. The characteristics of the Brisbane urban landscape create the material cultural adaptations that have been observed in diaspora contexts, including places of dwelling, community and church gatherings. They are commonly displayed during family or community events, in both private and public spaces. In order to understand the significance of material cultural adaptations we must also consider the underpinnings of the materials and templates used within context. Preliminary qualitative findings have been drawn from a wider-scale research project that has explored Pasifika migrants (of Samoan and Tongan descent) perceptions and experiences of wellbeing during 2015-2018. This inquiry has rendered significant evidence of cultural values and identity elements originating from Samoa and Tonga and retained by generations of Brisbane-based Pacific Islanders, through adapted material culture and shared spatial behaviour.

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Trans‐Tasman migration: New Zealanders’ explanations for their move

Cited by 24 publications

References 8 publications

Circular migration in a context of free mobility: Evidence from linked population register data from Finland and Sweden

Circular migration in a context of free mobility: Evidence from linked population register data from Finland and Sweden

Multiple Senses of Community Among Older Chinese Migrants to New Zealand

Pasifika diaspora connectivity and continuity with Pacific homelands: Material culture and spatial behaviour in Brisbane

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