Asian transnational families in New Zealand : Dynamics and challenges

Abstract

This paper explores the changing dynamics of Asian transnational families over the last two decades in New Zealand, with a special focus on the experiences of young people within these families. In the early 1990s, bi-local families were commonly known as "astronaut" families, in which one or both parents returned to their countries of origin to work, leaving their children to be educated in New Zealand

Also the experiences of international students are explored within the wider context of family strategies for maximising benefits through spatially extended networks on the one hand, and government initiatives and immigration policy changes that have been taking place in New Zealand since the 1990s on the other