Migration employment and development in the South Pacific: New Zealand.

This is one in a series of country reports concerning the relationships among migration employment and development in the South Pacific region; the present report is concerned with New Zealand. It focuses on the Pacific Island-origin population of New Zealand comprising people from Cook Islands Niue Tokelau Tonga and Western Samoa. The report is divided into six sections: "a comment on the main sources of the data; an historical overview of migration to New Zealand from the Pacific with special reference to Polynesians; an assessment of contemporary migration flows and the changing contributions of international migration and natural increase to growth in New Zealands Pacific Island Polynesian population; a description of the spatial distribution of Polynesians with particular reference to their adaptation to urban residence in New Zealand; an examination of the role of Pacific Islanders in the New Zealand workforce; and a review of contemporary immigration in the context of population movement between New Zealand and the Pacific Islands." (EXCERPT)