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The Broomhouse Centre & Enterprises Report (2023)
Report
Maclean, G., O'Donnell, E., Cunningham, A., & Ran, J. (2023). The Broomhouse Centre & Enterprises Report. Broomehouse Centre and Edinburgh Napier University

Report produced from consultancy work Edinburgh Napier University was asked to conduct on behalf of the The Broomhouse Centre.

A cross-sectional online survey of depression symptoms among New Zealand’s Asian community in the first 10 months of the COVID-19 pandemic (2023)
Journal Article
Siegert, R. J., Zhu, A., Jia, X., Ran, G. J., French, N., Johnston, D., Lu, J., & Liu, L. S. (online). A cross-sectional online survey of depression symptoms among New Zealand’s Asian community in the first 10 months of the COVID-19 pandemic. Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand, https://doi.org/10.1080/03036758.2023.2251900

The COVID-19 pandemic has elevated levels of distress and resulted in anti-Asian discrimination in many countries. We aimed to determine the 10-month prevalence of depression symptoms in Asian adults in New Zealand during the pandemic and to see if t... Read More about A cross-sectional online survey of depression symptoms among New Zealand’s Asian community in the first 10 months of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Making sense of family and home: multi-generational immigrant families from China to New Zealand (2023)
Book Chapter
Liu, L. S., & Ran, G. J. (2023). Making sense of family and home: multi-generational immigrant families from China to New Zealand. In P. Boccagni (Ed.), Handbook on Home and Migration (635-646). Edward Elgar Publishing. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781800882775.00065

After three decades during which New Zealand has embraced a neoliberal immigration regime, a large number of new Chinese immigrants from Mainland China have arrived in the country with the visible presence of many multi-generational new Chinese immig... Read More about Making sense of family and home: multi-generational immigrant families from China to New Zealand.

Measuring the missing: Knowledge, risk perceptions and self-protection practices of COVID-19 among the Asian population in New Zealand: An online survey (2023)
Journal Article
Liu, L. S., Jia, X., Zhu, A., Ran, G. J., Johnston, D., Siegert, R., Gong, Y., French, N., & Lu, J. (2024). Measuring the missing: Knowledge, risk perceptions and self-protection practices of COVID-19 among the Asian population in New Zealand: An online survey. Journal of Public Health, 32(9), 1631-1648. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10389-023-01926-0

Aim: Asians are the second largest and fastest growing non-European population in New Zealand but are under-researched in terms of their COVID-19 pandemic response. The paper aims to illustrates Asians’ risk perceptions and knowledge of COVID-19, and... Read More about Measuring the missing: Knowledge, risk perceptions and self-protection practices of COVID-19 among the Asian population in New Zealand: An online survey.

The rationale of non-smoking adolescents’ use of electronic cigarettes (vaping) (2023)
Journal Article
Caie, S., & Ran, G. J. (2023). The rationale of non-smoking adolescents’ use of electronic cigarettes (vaping). Aotearoa New Zealand Social Work, 35(1), 85-94

INTRODUCTION: Although electronic cigarettes are primarily advertised as smoking cessation tools, recent studies found a significant increase of adolescents who are non-smokers initiating the use of electronic cigarettes, and the understanding of the... Read More about The rationale of non-smoking adolescents’ use of electronic cigarettes (vaping).

Stigmatising and Racialising COVID-19: Asian People’s Experience in New Zealand (2022)
Journal Article
Liu, L. S., Jia, X., Zhu, A., Ran, G. J., Siegert, R., French, N., & Johnston, D. (2023). Stigmatising and Racialising COVID-19: Asian People’s Experience in New Zealand. Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities, 10, 2704-2717. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40615-022-01448-7

The Asian community — the second largest non-European ethnic community in New Zealand — plays an important role in combatting the COVID-19 pandemic, evidenced by their active advocation for border control and mass masking. Despite the long history of... Read More about Stigmatising and Racialising COVID-19: Asian People’s Experience in New Zealand.

New Zealand border restrictions amidst COVID-19 and their impacts on temporary migrant workers (2022)
Journal Article
Liu, L. S., Ran, G. J., & Jia, X. (2022). New Zealand border restrictions amidst COVID-19 and their impacts on temporary migrant workers. Asian and Pacific Migration Journal, 31(3), 312-323. https://doi.org/10.1177/01171968221126206

In September 2021, Immigration New Zealand (INZ) announced the offer of a one-off residence visa category – the 2021 Resident Visa, to over 165,000 temporary migrant workers and their family members living in the country. The offer was a response to... Read More about New Zealand border restrictions amidst COVID-19 and their impacts on temporary migrant workers.

Contemporary family sponsorship and older parent reunification immigration under New Zealand’s neoliberal immigration regime (2022)
Journal Article
Liu, L. S., & Ran, G. J. (2022). Contemporary family sponsorship and older parent reunification immigration under New Zealand’s neoliberal immigration regime. Journal of Population Research, 39(1), 73-95. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12546-022-09279-3

A neoliberal immigration regime often takes an “economic” lens to frame and reframe immigration regulation based on a rational cost–benefit analysis of what immigration might bring to immigration-receiving countries. Under such a regime, skilled and... Read More about Contemporary family sponsorship and older parent reunification immigration under New Zealand’s neoliberal immigration regime.

Re-constructing reverse family remittances: the case of new Chinese immigrant families in New Zealand (2021)
Journal Article
Ran, G. J., & Liu, L. S. (2023). Re-constructing reverse family remittances: the case of new Chinese immigrant families in New Zealand. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 49(1), 313-331. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369183x.2021.1999221

Transnational family remittances normally indicate the transfer of money from immigrants to their left-behind families in the country of origin. However, a significant remittance pattern in many new Chinese immigrant families in New Zealand demonstra... Read More about Re-constructing reverse family remittances: the case of new Chinese immigrant families in New Zealand.

A conceptual framework studying transnational immigrant family experiences: The phenomenon of Chinese seasonal parents/grandparents in New Zealand (2021)
Journal Article
Liu, L. S., & Ran, G. J. (2022). A conceptual framework studying transnational immigrant family experiences: The phenomenon of Chinese seasonal parents/grandparents in New Zealand. Population, Space and Place, 28(4), Article e2527. https://doi.org/10.1002/psp.2527

Despite heightened scholarly attention paid to transnational immigrant families since the 1990s, a systematic analysis framework explaining the formation of these family experiences has been absent. Building on a 3-year qualitative research project (... Read More about A conceptual framework studying transnational immigrant family experiences: The phenomenon of Chinese seasonal parents/grandparents in New Zealand.

Family finds a way: experiences of multigenerational transnational new Chinese immigrant families in New Zealand (2021)
Thesis
Ran, G. (2021). Family finds a way: experiences of multigenerational transnational new Chinese immigrant families in New Zealand. (Thesis). Massey University. http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/2974489

The Immigration Act 1987 fundamentally transformed New Zealand’s immigration policy from one that was race-based to one based on economic needs of New Zealand society. It opened the borders to immigrants from much wider regions. As a result of this “... Read More about Family finds a way: experiences of multigenerational transnational new Chinese immigrant families in New Zealand.

CaDDANZ Brief: Ageing And Wellbeing In Northcote (2020)
Report
Irvine, J., Ran, G. J., Terruhn, T., & Cain, T. (2020). CaDDANZ Brief: Ageing And Wellbeing In Northcote. Hamilton, New Zealand: Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment (MBIE), New Zealand Government