Asia Essay Prospectus

ASIA 101 ESSAY PROSPECTUS

Consider the Chinese and Indian immigrant experience in NZ. Discuss how these experiences have differed and what crucial factors have been involved.

Research question:

In what ways have policies affected Chinese and Indian immigrants coming into New Zealand and how has this developed over time?

What effects have the changes to policy had on the immigration experience for Chinese and Indians into NZ?

Why is Chinese and Indian immigrant experiences in New Zealand distinguishably harder in comparison with other cultural immigration into New Zealand?

Topic

This essay will examine factors that have affected Chinese and Indian immigration into New Zealand and the development of these factors over time. The main area of focus will be New Zealand policies that have had one of the biggest impacts on immigrants coming into New Zealand. Other examined factors will include social and economic factors. These factors will be analysed over a time period (give times?) to look at the negative and positive results for immigrants from changes to said factors.

Issues related to the concepts and processes of “settlement” and “integration” and what it might mean to be successfully settled.

Issues/predicaments

EARLY:

        •        Immigration rules and limits

        •        How these affected Chinese immigration

        •        How these affected Indian immigration

        •        Similarities/differences between effects on Chinese and Indian immigrants

NOW:

•        Immigration rules and limits

        •        How these are affecting Chinese immigration

        •        How these are affecting Indian immigration

        •        Similarities/differences between effects on Chinese and Indian immigrants

        •        Indian and Chinese immigrants both encountered oppressive prejudice and hardship from white settlers

        •        Immigration rules and limits

        •        Chinese poll tax

        •        Division, friction and resentment in society

        •        Discrimination

        •        Few trades to go in to

        •        Chinese and Indian migrants considered undesirable in NZ nation-building enterprise

        •        It is ongoing - Indians and Chinese still struggling to gain employment and/or experiencing downward mobility in terms of employment and income

Argument (questions being asked or hypothesis being tested)

        •        Successful settlement involves social, economic and political participation in the wider society on merit, without preference or discrimination

        •        Growing body of research and literature on immigration settlement issues in NZ which indicates a pressing need to address issues associated with settlement and integration and for a move to more holistic settlement support for immigrant if the aims of _                        immigration policy are to be achieved and immigrants are to be successfully settled and integrated into the wider society.