OECD Continuous Reporting System on Migration (SOPEMI)

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

LIST OF FIGURES

LIST OF TABLES

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

1. MIGRATION MOVEMENTS

1.1. Permanent and long-term arrivals and departures

1.2. Residence approvals

1.3. Residence approvals by category

1.3.1. Skilled Migrant Category

1.3.2. Gender of Skilled Migrant Category approvals

1.3.3. Business Categories

1.3.4. Investor Categories

1.3.5. Family Sponsored Migrants

1.3.6. Samoan Quota

1.3.7. Pacific Access Category

1.3.8. Successful refugee status claimants granted residence

1.3.9. Residence Trends for Women

1.4. Temporary Entry Approvals

1.4.1. Visitors

1.4.2. Workers

1.4.3. Students

1.4.4. Temporary entry trends for women

1.4.5. Working Holiday Schemes

2. FLOWS OF REFUGEES AND ASYLUM SEEKERS

2.1. Policy

2.2. Asylum Seekers

2.2.1. Failed asylum seekers

2.3. Refugee Quota

3. STOCK OF FOREIGN-BORN POPULATION

3.1. Characteristics of overseas-born people

4. EMPLOYMENT STATUS OF FOREIGN-BORN POPULATION

4.1. Labour Force Status

4.2. Labour Market Activity

4.2.1. Labour market activity

4.2.2. Qualifications

4.3. Data on the Occupations of Skilled Migrant Category principal applicants

4.3.1. Labour market tested work permit holders

4.4. Additional Research

4.4.1. Migrants and Labour Market Outcomes

4.4.2. Settlement Experiences Feedback Survey

4.5. Conditions of labour market access for foreign students

5. PRINCIPAL DEVELOPMENTS IN MIGRATION POLICY

5.1. Legislation: the Immigration Bill

5.2. Policy

5.3. Closer economic partnerships/free trade agreements

6. IRREGULAR MIGRATION

6.1. Overstayers

6.2. The employment of foreigners in an irregular situation

6.3. Border Security

7. POLICIES AND MEASURES AIMED AT THE INTEGRATION OF CHILDREN OF MIGRANTS INTO THE LABOUR MARKET OR SOCIETY

7.1. Introduction

7.1.1. United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCROC)

7.1.2. Immigration New Zealand

7.1.3. Career services

7.1.4. “English for Speakers of other Languages” (ESOL) in schools

7.1.5. Research

8. ANTI-DISCRIMINATION AND DIVERSITY MEASURES

8.1. Government organisations

8.1.1. The Human Rights Act 1993

8.1.2. New Zealand Bill of Rights Act 1990

8.1.3. Human Rights Commission

8.1.4. Office of Ethnic Affairs

8.1.5. Ministry of Pacific Island Affairs

8.1.6. Ministry of Women’s Affairs

8.1.7. Te Puni Kokiri (Ministry of Maori Development)

8.1.8. Office for Disability Services

8.1.9. State Services Commission

8.1.10. Review of culture and identity statistics

8.2. Recent changes to legal provision

8.2.1. The Parental Leave and Employment Protection Act 1987

8.2.2. Employment Relations (Flexible Working Arrangements) Amendment Act 2007

8.2.3. Employment Relations (Breaks, Infant Feeding, and Other Matters) Amendment Act 2007

8.3. Recent reports and research

8.3.1. Human Rights Commission Omnibus Survey

8.3.2. Migrants and employment

9. SOCIAL INTEGRATION OUTCOMES AND POLICIES

9.1. New Zealand Settlement Strategy

9.2. The National Settlement Structure

9.3. Settlement Support Services

9.4. Support for Migrant and Refugee Students in the Compulsory School Sector

9.4.1. Ministry of Education Ongoing Support Initiatives

9.5. Access to Social Housing

9.6. Language Preservation

9.6.1. Mind Your Language

9.7. Geographic concentration

10. ENTREPRENEURS

10.1.1. Background

10.1.2. Flow of migrants

REFERENCES

APPENDIX 1: PEOPLE APPROVED FOR RESIDENCE IN 2007/08

APPENDIX 2: VISA-WAIVER COUNTRIES

LIST OF FIGURES  

Figure 1: Permanent /long-term arrivals and departures 1978/79 - 2007/08.

Figure 2: Gender of Skilled Migrant Category approvals by applicant type, 2007/08

Figure 3: Principal applicants granted work permits since 1997/98

Figure 4: Number of students approved offshore for the top source countries from 2005/06 to 2007/08

Figure 5: Age and gender of working holidaymakers in 2007/08

Figure 6: Principal applicants granted labour market tested work permits since 2005/06*

LIST OF TABLES

Table 1: Residence approvals by category and sub-category in 2007/08

Table 2: Residence approvals by top ten nationalities 2007/08

Table 3: Nationalities of Skilled Migrant Category approvals in 2007/08

Table 4: Business approvals 2002/03 - 2007/08

Table 5: Business approvals by source country 2002/03 - 2007/08

Table 6: Pacific Access Category approvals in 2007/08

Table 7: Principal applicants granted work permits in top source countries since 2005/06*

Table 8: Principal applicants granted student permits from 2002/03*

Table 9: Number of people approved work permits under Working Holiday Schemes, 2007/08

Table 10: Top ten source countries of asylum seekers in New Zealand 2006/07-2007/08

Table 11: Approved refugee status claims by nationality 2007/08

Table 12: Nationality, and last country of refuge, of Refugee Quota refugees 2007/08

Table 13: Usually resident population by birthplace for overseas born in 1996, 2001 and 2006 (NZ Censuses)

Table 14: Average number of children born per woman by age group and birthplace (New Zealand Census 2006)

Table 15: Birthplace and Labour Force Status (2006)

Table 16: Labour Force Activity by sex and immigration approval category

Table 17: Labour force activity by highest qualification level and immigration approval category

Table 18: Location and type of employment of approved SMC principal applicants in 2007/08

Table 19: Main occupations* of SMC principal applicants in 2007/08

Table 20: Overstayers who departed New Zealand 2001/02 – 2007/08

Table 21: People approved under Section 35a by applciation type 2007/08

Table 22: Proportion (percentage) of survey respondents who perceived selected groups as being subject to a great deal or some discrimination, December 2000-November 2007

Table 23: LTBV applications approved

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