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The largest subset of Asian New Zealanders, many of the Chinese immigrants came from Mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, or other countries that have large populations of Chinese diaspora. Today's Chinese New Zealand group is also composed of diasporic communities from Indonesia, Malaysia, Cambodia, Vietnam and Singapore.
At the 2023 census, 861,573 New Zealanders identified as being of Asian ethnicity, making up 17.3% of New Zealand's population. [3] The first Asians in New Zealand were Chinese workers who migrated to New Zealand to work in the gold mines in the 1860s. The modern period of Asian immigration began in the 1970s when New Zealand relaxed its ...
Immigration New Zealand's manager for refugee and migrant support Sarah Ward confirmed that community groups could nominate someone to sponsor or be matched with a person in need. Refugees participating in the Community Organisation Refugee Sponsorship programme need to have a basic level of English and either three years of work experience or ...
More than 35,000 Chinese migrants crossed the southern border in 2023, but crossings have dropped significantly since then due to stricter enforcement on both the U.S. and Mexican sides.
The United States deported Chinese people who sought to enter the country illegally back to China over the weekend in the first large charter flight since 2018, the Department of Homeland Security ...
The U.S. is seeing a big increase in Chinese immigrants arriving using a relatively new and perilous route through Panama’s Darién Gap jungle, thanks in part to social media posts and videos ...
In 2008–09, a target of 45,000 migrants was set by the New Zealand Immigration Service (plus a 5,000 tolerance). [50] At the 2018 census, 27.4 percent of people counted were not born in New Zealand, up from 25.2 percent in 2013.
As Chinese migrants arrive at the U.S.-Mexico border, ... Visa screenings in Hong Kong for new migrants slowed even beyond the sluggish pace that had dominated the 1940s. ... USA TODAY Sports.