New Zealand’s population is made entirely of immigrants. People from countries all over the globe from the year 1200 to today have made Aotearoa their home.

Across New Zealand’s immigration history, people have come for work, family, a different way of life, or after wars and conflicts to escape danger.

Over the centuries, explorers, whalers and sealers, traders and missionaries made their way across thousands of miles of ocean. Soldiers, shepherds and surveyors followed, along with those with gold fever, war brides or asylum seekers.

They came from England, China, India, Germany and Poland. From Austria, Italy, Greece and from across the Polynesian nations.

Tolerance to these newcomers has been mixed in the past with special legislation penned against certain groups to placate the mostly British and European settlers. That legislation is now long gone, government apologies have been given, and a lush multicultural society is the result.

This diversity of New Zealand is shared throughout this new book in The NZ Series published for general reading and to compliment the NZ History School Curriculum.

With nearly 60 photographs, both black & white and colour, posters of the past, newspaper clippings, copies of certificates and other documents, and separate boxed sections of extra information, New Zealand Migration is a rich resource for classrooms and New Zealand homes with an interest in our past.

NZ Author Philippa Werry is an award winning novelist and historian.

Author – Philippa Werry

Age – 10+

Non-Fiction

(2023, Oratia Media, NZ, New Zealand, Aotearoa, History Curriculum, Historical, Immigrants, Travel, Settlers, Colonials, Descendants, Family, Series, Diversity, Multicultural Society, Migration)