This report is the eighth in a series produced annually to provide background information about trends in temporary and permanent migration.
The report is prepared for:
- policy-makers concerned with migration flows and their impact
- the wider public with an interest in immigration policy and outcomes.
The information in these reports now constitutes a time series that enables recent immigration patterns to be compared with those identified in previous years.
This report contains an update of trends for the fiscal year of 2007/08. The affects of the global economic downturn on migration trends are not present in this time period. The global outlook chapter contains an overview of effects of the downturn that were observed by October 2008.
The report is structured as follows.
- Chapter 1 introduces New Zealand’s immigration policies. (A timeline of policy changes is in Appendix A.)
- Chapter 2 contains a special feature summarising the findings from the Economic Impacts of Immigration research programme.
- Chapter 3 reports on the global outlook.
- Chapter 4 describes migration flows into and out of New Zealand. • Chapter 5 describes the characteristics of people granted student and work permits.
- Chapter 6 summarises the trends in permanent residence approvals.
- Chapters 7–9 detail residence approvals through the four residence streams: Skilled/Business Stream; Uncapped Family Sponsored Stream and Parent Sibling Adult Child Stream; and International/Humanitarian Stream.
- Chapter 10 concludes the report.
- The appendices contain a glossary, information on immigration policies, and supplementary tables and analyses.
- All publications referred to in this report are in the References.