ABSTRACT
This chapter provides an overview of new Chinese family immigration from China to New Zealand over the last three decades. It discusses the push factors of new Chinese immigration flows to the Global North since 1980s, including China's changing policy perspectives regarding international emigration since the late 1970s, and its changing geopolitical and economic circumstances. The chapter also considers the pull factors of New Zealand as an immigrant-receiving country where its racially biased immigration selection system was abolished and has started a new immigration policy in 1987. All of these changes in both China and New Zealand had resulted in Chinese nationals being able to participate in international immigration movements. The aim of the chapter is to set the scene, identify the necessity of having a book as such, and discuss the conceptual framework and research approach and methods used to data collection and analysis.
