Talk:Immigration to New Zealand

message: I'm assuming the map does not include Australians arriving/residing in NZ under the Trans-Tasman Travel Arrangement? If so, could this be indicated somehow? —what a crazy random happenstance 06:27, 18 November 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Done. —what a crazy random happenstance 10:39, 26 November 2009 (UTC)
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message: Polynesian waka were apparently not capable of windward sailing. The normal wind  flow in the South Pacific is from The Society Island  area directly to the east coast of the North Island. With the wind always aft, sailing waka would have made that trip in 2-3 weeks.It seems unlikely they would have landed directly at Wairau Bar as this is outside the normal flow of winds. There are several big question marks about this. Were the winds in 1280 the same as now? We now know that although the winds normally flow SW this is not always the case-during the 1990s winds flowed in the opposite direction for a while. This reverse flow is related to higher sea and air temperatures -and of course that is the atmospheric condition that prevailed around 1280 from the limited data available at that time. The implication from this is that return journeys from NZ to East Polynesia were quite possible with this reverse wind direction although there is no evidence at all that this actually happened.
Replica polynesian sailing waka have gone from NZ to the Cook Islands in summer but they made extensive use of modern technology such as modern dacron sails and ropes,modern food,medical supplies  plus outboard motors. In the 1990s a replica that "sailed" to the Cooks was shown being towed at sea by its modern escort vessel after all the crew got seasick, the wind was on the nose and the voyage fell behind schedule. The crew claimed they had to be towed to make it to the Cooks in time for the planned celebrations.Claudia
:What we need is not speculation but reliable secondary sources. Stuartyeates (talk) 23:49, 10 February 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Likely East Polynesian pathway of discovery. 

message: How about a section on the globalisation of immigration? People may be interested to know how such major unmandated changes came about?
The immigration policy review in 1986 was part of a much larger agenda for change in New Zealand (Bedford 1996). It was not essentially a change in state policy with a primary focus on one region of the world, as Parr (2000:329) suggests, although clearly through the 1980s and 1990s immigration from countries in Asia was a highly topical issue for both politicians and the public. The attitudes of New Zealanders in the mid-1990s towards immigration may not have reflected the positive perspective on the value of diversity in our society that is contained in the Review of Immigration Policy August 1986. But this does not mean that the globalisation of immigration to New Zealand was an “unintended consequence of policy changes in 1986”. It was a deliberate strategy, based on a premise that the “infusion of new elements to New Zealand life has been of immense value to the development of this country to date and will, as a result of this Government’s review of immigration policy, become even more important in the future” (Burke 1986:330)The Globalisation of International Migration in New Zealand: Contribution to a DebateYonk (talk) 08:46, 13 June 2017 (UTC)
thread_title: Globalisation of Immigration

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