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      Difference and diversity in Aotearoa/New Zealand: Post-neoliberal constructions of the ideal ethnic citizen

      Simon-Kumar, Rachel
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       10.1177/1468796812466374
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      Simon-Kumar, R. (2012). Difference and diversity in Aotearoa/New Zealand: Post-neoliberal constructions of the ideal ethnic citizen. Ethnicities, published online 4 December 2012.
      Permanent Research Commons link: https://hdl.handle.net/10289/6934
      Abstract
      In the last decade, the political rhetoric around citizenship for ethnic minority groups, particularly recent migrants, in Aotearoa/New Zealand has been influenced by two dominant paradigms. In the wake of the post-neoliberalism advanced by the Fifth Labour Government (1999–2008) and the efforts to build an inclusive state, the idea of the ‘active citizen’ has evolved, encouraging ethnic migrants to contribute to their own communities and to a wider New Zealand identity. Equally, broader discourses on the recognition of group-based citizenship have helped ethnic communities in securing a multicultural framing of social rights. Based on qualitative analysis of interview and policy documents, this paper argues that the active citizen and the rights-bearing citizen emerge from discrete paradigms that reveal a fundamental tension between policy-centred celebration of diversity and the political recognition of difference.
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      2012
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      Journal Article
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      Sage
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