Seriously Asia Revisited - Society and Culture
The Asia New Zealand Foundation Te Whītau Tūhono commissioned this paper as one of four thematic reports that revisit the outcomes and recommendations of the 2003 Seriously Asia initiative.
The papers reflect on how the context of New Zealand-Asia relationships have changed since 2003, what has been achieved and what could be done differently going forward. These papers informed a series of four hui held over the course of 2022. More than 25 people attended each hui, sharing their perspectives on the themes and contributing to recommendations on how New Zealand can best engage with Asia in the years ahead.
In this paper prepared for Seriously Asia Revisited, authors Professor Sekhar Bandyopadhyay and Dr Andrew Butcher discuss how New Zealand’s demographic profile has changed in the past two decades and how this has impacted relationships with Asian countries and New Zealand’s cultural landscape. It provides a summary of developments in immigration, international education, education initiatives and the media. The hui for this theme was held on Friday 29 July 2022 in Auckland.
SAR Society and Culture report
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