ABSTRACT
With over 11% of the New Zealand population identifying with more than one ethnic group (Statistics New Zealand, 2014), identities in New Zealand are becoming increasingly complex. Following shifts in immigration policy, the population has become more diverse, and understandings of ethnic identity and belonging have developed and changed. Similar changes have occurred in other multicultural societies around the world, and as a result, the concepts of ‘mixed race’ and ‘mixed ethnicity’ are of increasing academic and political concern, particularly in the American and British contexts (see Ifekwunigwe, 2004; Parker and Song, 2001).
