Browsing by Author "Bedford, Richard"

• Asian Transnational Families in New Zealand: Dynamics and Challenges 

  Ho, Elsie; Bedford, Richard (Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2008)

  Since the 1990s, Asia has emerged as the major contributor of migration flows into New Zealand. Settler migration, tourism, international business and more recently, international education make up the diverse flows of ...

• Book review: ‘… when the long trick's over’: Donald Kennedy in the Pacific . By Mike Butcher 

  Bedford, Richard (Taylor & Francis, 2012)

  This article reviews the book ‘. . . when the long trick’s over’: Donald Kennedy in the Pacific. By Mike Butcher. Bendigo.

• Changing sex ratios in New Zealand: Real change or a statistical problem? 

  Callister, Paul; Didham, Robert; Bedford, Richard (Population Association of New Zealand, 2006)

  In New Zealand, in all age groups under 20, and in key working age groups, historically there have been more men than women. Life table data suggest that, without migration, the number of males should remain greater than ...

  

• Demographic change and employment in the Central North Island, 1986-1996 

  Bedford, Richard; Lidgard, Jacqueline; Mclaughlin, Bridget; Newell, James (University of Waikato, Population Studies Centre, 2001-04)

  This paper examines some dimensions of demographic and economic change in a region which is generally considered to be one of the most productive and affluent parts of New Zealand’s “heartland”. The paper highlights ...

  

• Final report of the 2018 Census External Data Quality Panel 

  Bedford, Richard; Reid, Alison; Milne, Barry; Cormack, Donna; Cope, Ian; Cook, Len; Kukutai, Tahu; Lumley, Thomas (Stats NZ, 2020)

  At the time this report was submitted for publication in January 2020, Stats NZ was finalizing its release schedule for census products that allow users to produce their own tabulations and statistical analyses using census ...

  

• Disciplining identities: gender, geography and the culture of fieldtrips 

  Nairn, Karen (The University of Waikato, 1998)

  This is an examination of geography disciplinary identities and practices as they are (re)produced during seven residential geography fieldtrips. The thesis is structured around four key arguments. First, is an analysis ...

  

• Northeast Asian migration: recent change in New Zealand’s international migration system 

  Lidgard, Jacqueline (The University of Waikato, 1998)

  This thesis examines the development of international migration from countries in Northeast Asia to New Zealand between 1986 and 1996 in the context of the restructuring of global capitalism. A part of the Fourth Labour ...

  

• Women as industrial labour: an enquiry into economic and social consequences of growth of garments manufacturing in Bangladesh 

  Zaman, Begum Meherunnessa (The University of Waikato, 2002)

  Over the last quarter century, the readymade garments industry has emerged as the main export-earning manufacturing industry in Bangladesh. The industry is the first to employ women in large numbers in the formal manufacturing ...

  

• Surface tension: Place/poverty/policy: From "poverty" to "social exclusion": Implications of discursive shifts in European Union poverty policy, 1975-1999 

  Peace, Robin M. (The University of Waikato, 1999)

  This dissertation addresses four substantive issues or arguments that are linked in an interdisciplinary discussion informed by contemporary feminist and cultural geographies, feminist political philosophy, policy studies ...

  

• Internal Migration in Tonga, 2001 - 2011: A review of Migrant Flows and Characteristics 

  Lolohea, Sione Foiakau (University of Waikato, 2016)

  This thesis examines Tonga’s internal migration between 2001 and 2011. Firstly, it provides an analysis of Tonga’s internal migration during that period and secondly it establishes whether the ‘drift south’ of Tonga’s ...

  

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