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INTEGRATION OF IMMIGRANTS PROGRAMME 2007 – 2012. Responding to Superdiversity : A Research Agenda. Paul Spoonley Massey University. Chinese Today Rising Dragons, Soaring Bananas 17-19 July 2009 Auckland .
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INTEGRATION OF IMMIGRANTS PROGRAMME 2007 – 2012 Responding to Superdiversity: A Research Agenda Paul Spoonley Massey University Chinese Today Rising Dragons, Soaring Bananas 17-19 July 2009 Auckland
How have the core institutions in New Zealand and the people who run them, responded to diversity in general and the presence of Chinese in particular?
The Superdiversity of Auckland Overseas Born and Ethnic Composition, 2006
Employment • Attitudes of employers towards Chinese • Experiences of Chinese business owners and job-seekers
Public Attitudes Attitude Surveys, 2003-2006
Media • Media racism • New technologies, new media
A Future Agenda: Research Capability • A tipping point: NZ-born Chinese • New identities and experiences • New ways of doing research
A Future Agenda: New Technologies • Cyber Ethnicity • Do online technologies significantly alter the nature and articulations of ethnicity? • Enhance community networks/solidarity or destroy them? Online connections – corrode or preserve culture? (Howard)
A Future Agenda: Chinese Invisibility • Royal Commission on Auckland Governance • Making Auckland GreaterGreater communities, greater connections, greater value?
Who is a New Zealander? • What it means to be a New Zealander? • What it means to be a New Zealander in a culturally diverse society?
INTEGRATION OF IMMIGRANTS PROGRAMME 2007 – 2012 http://integrationofimmigrants.massey.ac.nz