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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.