ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the transnational migratory mobility of the People's Republic of China (PRC) new Chinese migrants in the New Zealand context, especially its implications for multigenerational migrant families and immigration policy factor in influencing their family lives and intergenerational dynamics. It addresses the policy factor – New Zealand's contemporary immigration regime and changing policies. The chapter examines the immigration pathways of this group of new Chinese migrants. It explains the immigration incentives of the PRC new migrants. The chapter discusses the transnational migratory mobility of the PRC migrants, a theme of research on new Chinese immigration everywhere. It concludes the opportunities and challenges faced by many multigenerational PRC Chinese migrant families from a transnational perspective, in the context of recent changes in policy relating to the immigration of elderly parents of migrants. The PRC new Chinese migrants have gone through diversified immigration routes to arrive in New Zealand. This can be seen through a comparative framework.
