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The Folly of Looking Only in the Mirror
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Pritchard, Ashley |
| Copyright Year | 2009 |
| Abstract | New Zealand’s immigration policy has undergone important changes in the past several years. The 1990s saw short-lived surges amounting to the highest net migration gains in over one hundred years (the so-called “Asian invasion” of the mid-1990s), some of the highest net migration losses of New Zealanders on record (the oft-noted “brain drain” of the late 1990s), and belated recognition that much of what is called “permanent and long-term migration” is not, in fact, permanent or long-term at all. (Bedford et al., p. 1) New Zealand’s future economic success is uncertain because it lacks within its current population some of the labor and technological skills needed to sustain economic growth. It is necessary, then, that it maintain an immigration policy that works to import these skills, logically from its skilled neighbors: Asians and Pacific Islanders. New Zealand has been and continues to be largely accepting of peoples from the United Kingdom, the United States, and Canada. However, New Zealand remains constantly uninviting to the “others” — its Asian neighbors — despite the considerable skills that they possess. Even though its immigration policies and initiatives have changed to no longer prohibit Asian immigration, attitudes toward settlement have not. It is because of this latent xenophobia that New Zealand’s immigration policy is arguably the country’s most contentious social issue. Each shift in policy has been met with harsh anti-immigration backlash and debate. (Grbic, p. 1) In fact, the unintended consequence of two immigration THE FOLLY OF LOOKING ONLY IN THE MIRROR Ashley E. Pritchard 1 |
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| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://preserve.lehigh.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1007&context=perspectives-v27&httpsredir=1&referer= |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
