New Migrants

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New Zealand Ethnic Communities

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Migrants’ Guide to Christchurch

Helpful information for new migrants settling in Christchurch from Christchurch City Council. Transport, schools, banking, finding work, health, improving your English, shopping etc.

Ethnic groups in Christchurch Christchurch

From CINCH

New Settlers

an introduction to library services for new settlers to Christchurch. Also available in Arabic, Chinese simplified, Chinese traditional, Persian, Japanese, Korean, Russian, Somali, Thai and Vietnamese

AEN - Aotearoa Ethnic Network

AEN Journal

Apply and Settle

Information from Immigration New Zealand for people wanting to visit, work, study or settle permanently here.

Directory on cultural diversity

The New Zealand Directory on Cultural Diversity, published by the Centre for Citizenship Education (CCE) is a partnership project with the Diversity Action Programme. This brings information on government departments, crown entities, state owned enterprises, information and services and help with rights and the law alongside content focused on helping culturally diverse New Zealanders and host society agencies work with each other.

English Language Partners New Zealand

This organisation trains and matches volunteers to help new settlers with English and settlement. They have hundreds of volunteers working for the scheme.
(was called ESOL Home Tutors).

ESL news

The aim of this site is to help people to understand spoken English by presenting items at a slower speed and by giving a written text for support also to give some background to New Zealand culture

ESOL resources Christchurch

Practical activities and field trips are designed to help you teach ESOL students about the roles and services of the Christchurch City Council, a territorial council, and Environment Canterbury (ECan) a regional council.

Life in New Zealand : Settlement Experiences of Skilled Migrants

This report details the findings from the 2007 Settlement Experience Feedback Survey (SEFS) of migrants who took up residence in New Zealand through the Skilled/Business Stream from January 2006 to June 2006.

Living in New Zealand

A guide for new migrants. You'll find information and useful contacts for many aspects of New Zealand life.

Massey University New Settlers Programme

Hosts on going research reports relating to new settlers. This research is undertaken by the School of Sociology at Massey University.

Migration Research Group

The Migration Research Group (MRG) is an affiliate of the Population Studies Centre in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at the University of Waikato. It includes excellent research on migrants and refugees in New Zealand

New Kiwis

Aims to link the skills of migrants to job vacancies. Provides an information centre for new migrants. An employment project by the Auckland Chamber of Commerce and funded by the New Zealand Immigration Service.

New Zealand Citizenship Office

Official government agency which handles applications for New Zealand citizenship and other citizenship matters.Office in Christchurch.

New Zealand Federation of Multicultural Councils

Established in 1989 and acts as an umbrella organization for the ethnic communities of new Zealand. The primary role is to advocate,lobby, support and share information among the Regional Councils

New Zealand Immigration Service (NZIS)

The Office of Ethnic Affairs Te Tari Matawaka

Provides a referral and information service for ethnic communities and policy advice to government.

Office of Ethnic Affairs Community Directory

Directory of groups that work with ethnic communities

Settlement Support Welcome to Christchurch

This is a "one stop shop" that aims to support the information needs of new settlers to Christchurch especially around the topics of Health, Housing, Employment and Education. Funded by DoL to improve information access for new settlers

Studying in New Zealand

Information from the Immigration Service