NZ Herald Your Views: Have you moved to New Zealand? How do you like it?

New Zealand Herald Your Views: Have you moved to New Zealand? How do you like it?
The link above brings you to answers of New Zealanders and immigrants to New Zealand on their experience on moving to New Zealand. The reactions of people are mixed.

New Zealand related immigration news and opinion

The Earth Times: New Zealand’s Asians put into campaign spotlight
Excerpt: Wellington - New Zealand’s fast-growing Asian population seems set for the spotlight at this year’s general election, as official projections that it will nearly double its numbers inside the next 20 years. The nationalist New Zealand First party, which has picked up votes from the [...]

Latest New Zealand Immigration Headlines

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NZ Herald: Professional migrants face discrimination in NZ - study
Excerpt: Highly skilled immigrants struggle to find jobs in New Zealand because they come up against a wall of discrimination from both potential employers and recruitment consultants, a Massey University study has found.
The Wellington-based study by human resource management lecturer Jacqui Campbell and communication [...]

poorly paid Chinese flight attendant battles to return to NZ

Source: WikipediaNew Zealand Herald: Chinese flight attendant battles to return to NZ
By Lincoln Tan
(Excerpt) The $530-a-month base salary Crystal Zeng received as an Air New Zealand steward was “miserable”, but what was worse for her were the working conditions.
“I remember feeling the pain when I see the others being able to go out to party [...]

Filipino nurses in NZ living in `slave labour’ conditions

New Zealand Herald: Filipino nurses living in `slave labour’ conditions
By Simon Collins
(Excerpt) Filipino nurses are being forced to work in what health officials describe as “slave labour” conditions in New Zealand rest homes to pay off often-exorbitant fees to recruitment agents and loan sharks.
A Weekend Herald investigation has found that some nurses are paying several [...]

Latest New Zealand Immigration Headlines

NZ Herald: Migration policies are bad for the economy, says academic (5:00AM Tuesday July 10, 2007 By Angela Gregory)
New Zealand’s immigration policies attract far fewer skilled migrants than suggested and while good at building new suburbs are bad for the economy, says a Massey University academic.

NZ Herald: Migrant reduction puzzles business (12:00PM Friday July [...]

NZ Immigration Articles from the NZ Listener

Who’s moving in next door?
by Bruce Ansley
The New Zealand Listener (September 2-8 2006 Vol 205 No 3460)
New Zealand needs immigrants, but applicants find the selection processes and criteria anything but straightforward.
Here’s a story of modern New Zealand immigration.

So who do we keep out?
by Bruce Ansley
The New Zealand Listener (September 2-8 2006 Vol 205 No 3460)
When [...]

NZ Herald: Migration Fall a Double-Edged Sword

New Zealand Herald: Migration fall a double-edged sword By Owen Hembry 
Falling net migration could take the pressure off housing only to turn the heat up on wages, says the National Bank. Statistics New Zealand said seasonally adjusted net permanent and long-term migration totalled 140 people in April. The latest migration rate was down from 630 [...]

NZ: Acute nursing shortage hits hospitals

from The New Zealand Herald (12 Nov 2006):
“The largest numbers of overseas nurses come from Britain, South Africa and the Philippines, but Filipino nurses claim they are discriminated against because of their accent, and many will no longer be able to fill nursing jobs in New Zealand.”

Ignore Asia and its peoples at your peril, report warns

Ignore Asia and its peoples at your peril, report warns - 04 Jul 2006 - Population
Source: NZ Herlad

“New Zealanders need to learn about Asia or risk a lower standard of living, fewer economic opportunities and a less secure future, a new report warns.”