Immigration policy in New Zealand: divergent narratives, shared assumptions and national identity

2012 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 363-378 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Skilling
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Immigration Policy

Conclusion

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alistair Fox
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Identity Formation ◽  
Essential Role ◽  
Coming Of Age ◽  
Financial Returns ◽  
Self Recognition ◽  
International Audience ◽  
National Identity Formation

The conclusion reaffirms the essential role played by cinema generally, and the coming-of-age genre in particular, in the process of national identity formation, because of its effectiveness in facilitating self-recognition and self-experience through a process of triangulation made possible, for the most part, by a dialogue with some of the nation’s most iconic works of literature. This section concludes by point out the danger posed, however, by an observable trend toward generic standardization in New Zealand films motivated by a desire to appeal to an international audience out of consideration for the financial returns expected by funding bodies under current regimes.

Multicultural and Transnational Novels

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
James Meffan
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
The Other ◽  
Colonial History ◽  
History Of ◽  
Return Home ◽  
Access Rights ◽  
The One

This chapter discusses the history of multicultural and transnational novels in New Zealand. A novel set in New Zealand will have to deal with questions about cultural access rights on the one hand and cultural coverage on the other. The term ‘transnational novel’ gains its relevance from questions about cultural and national identity, questions that have particularly exercised nations formed from colonial history. The chapter considers novels that demonstrate and respond to perceived deficiencies in wider discourses of cultural and national identity by way of comparison between New Zealand and somewhere else. These include Amelia Batistich's Another Mountain, Another Song (1981), Albert Wendt's Sons for the Return Home (1973) and Black Rainbow (1992), James McNeish's Penelope's Island (1990), Stephanie Johnson's The Heart's Wild Surf (2003), and Lloyd Jones's Mister Pip (2006).

Running for Korea: Rethinking of sport migration and in/flexible citizenship

2018 ◽  
Vol 55 (3) ◽  
pp. 361-379 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yeomi Choi
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
Immigration Policy ◽  
Decisive Role ◽  
Transnational Migration ◽  
Human Migration ◽  
Critical Race Studies ◽  
Controversial Issues ◽  
Skilled Workers ◽  
Territorial State ◽  
Racial Domination

Human migration is one of the defining features of a transnational age. Challenging the conventional knowledge that identity and citizenship are connected to one territorial state, both migrant and repositioned subjects create a new understanding of identity, belonging, and citizenship within multiple transnational connectivities. Sport particularly produces a new version of belonging referred to as flexible citizenship, including various kinds of skilled workers crossing national borders. In the process of migration, governments play a crucial and a decisive role by determining permission via specific legislation enactment; South Korea’s immigration policy, Special Naturalization, is a notable example. Despite the legally encouraged mobility that favors flexible citizenship by state power, this repositioning is regulated and limited by the intricate socio-political logics of race, class, and national identity. Focusing on the controversial issues of the Kenyan-born marathoner Wilson Loyanae Erupe and his bid for Korean citizenship, this study critically examines the tensions surrounding sport migration, flexible citizenship, race, and nationalism. Drawing on the theoretical ideas of critical race studies, specifically, it queries the conflicting encounters of transnational migration and being a Korean citizen to illuminate the structures of racial domination in Korea often seen as a racially and ethnically homogeneous society.

Colonization, Decolonization, and Power: Ruptures and Critical Junctures Out of Dominance

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
James H. Liu ◽  
Felicia Pratto
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
National Identity ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Social Structure ◽  
Critical Junctures ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
European Colonization ◽  
Historical Trajectory ◽  
The Impact

Colonization and decolonization are theorized at the intersection of Critical Junctures Theory and Power Basis Theory. This framework allows human agency to be conceptualized at micro-, meso-, and macro-levels, where individuals act on behalf of collectives. Their actions decide whether critical junctures in history (moments of potential for substantive change) result in continuity (no change), anchoring (continuity amid change with new elements), or rupture. We apply this framework to European colonization of the world, which is the temporal scene for contemporary social justice. Several critical junctures in New Zealand history are analyzed as part of its historical trajectory and narrated through changes in its symbology (system of meaning) and technology of state, as well as the identity space it encompasses (indigenous Māori and British colonizers). The impact of this historical trajectory on the social structure of New Zealand, including its national identity and government, is considered and connected to the overarching theoretical framework.

scholarly journals The Invention of New Zealand: Art and National Identity, 1930-1970 [Book Review]

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Newton
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
New Zealand

Review(s) of: The Invention of New Zealand: Art and National Identity, 1930-1970, by Francis Pound, Auckland University Press, Auckland, 2009, xxi, 425 pp., [80] pp. of plates. ISBN 9781869404147

scholarly journals Ethnic Immigration Policy Implementation (1992- 2009)

2013 ◽  
pp. 109-117
Author(s):  
Shugatai Amangul
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
Population Growth ◽  
Policy Implementation ◽  
Population Size ◽  
International Migration ◽  
Immigration Policy ◽  
International Affairs ◽  
Migration Process ◽  
Economic Stability ◽  
Positive Effect

After Kazakhstan declared its independence, it became a large perform­er in the worldwide international migration process. The attraction of social and economic stability (with an increase in the level of liv­ing standard), stable ethno-demographic and population growth, no nationalist struggles as well as positive geopolitical situations, have lead to a huge flow of immigrants to Kazakhstan in the years since independence. In this study, I have suggested that results of the ethnic immigration policy include strengthening the national identity, creating a positive effect on the ethno-demographic outcomes, and increasing the number of the population size over the last nineteen years. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5564/mjia.v0i17.87 Mongolian Journal of International Affairs, No.17 2012: 109-117

scholarly journals Reinforcing Cultural Hegemony: Pakeha Perceptions of Brand New Zealand

2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eveline Dürr
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Cultural Hegemony ◽  
Branding Strategies ◽  
Key Aspects

The entanglement and mutual constitution of New Zealand's branding strategies, national identity and local understandings of 'New Zealandness' are discussed. The key aspects and features of the Pakeha perceptions of brand New Zealand are highlighted.

New Zealand Vegetarians: At Odds with Their Nation

2008 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 336-353 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mandala White ◽  
Annie Potts
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Meat Production ◽  
Animal Farming ◽  
Everyday Lives ◽  
Nonhuman Animals ◽  
New Zealanders

AbstractThis qualitative study, conducted between August and December 2006, explored the opinions and experiences of New Zealanders who challenge orthodox attitudes to the use and consumption of nonhuman animals. To date, New Zealand (NZ) has under-investigated the perspectives of those who oppose animal farming, the eating of nonhuman animals, and the exploitation of nonhuman animals. Agriculture substantially influences the economy and cultural heritage of the nation. Given that national identity in New Zealand strongly associates with farming and meat production, this paper investigates how vegetarians living in this country experience and challenge prevalent imagery and ideas about New Zealand. In particular, the paper examines the ways in which “kiwi” vegetarians are disputing the dominant image of New Zealand as “clean and green” and a land of "animal lovers" and how they are experiencing mainstream (meat-loving) kiwi culture in their everyday lives. The paper also examines some of the more positive aspects for vegetarians of living in New Zealand.

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