ABSTRACT
This chapter draws on 45 in-depth interviews that conducted in New Zealand and China with family members from selected multigenerational new Chinese immigrant families to provide a summary of the key qualitative findings of the research. The focus is on the challenges these families face and the strategies they have developed to overcome the difficulties. The challenges include the New Zealand immigration regime which does not accommodate their cultural preference to live as multigenerational families, how to cope with family dislocation and relocation, and the impacts of the family separation on their inter-generational family dynamics. The chapter reveals the “forced” family separation explicitly.
