Read an article in the DominionPost of Wednesday 16th December, which I was interviewed for. It promotes research Asia New Zealand recently published on New Zealanders in Southeast Asia.
Interview with the DomPost: Contacts may help businesses
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Tags: Asian business, Diaspora
Categories : Media articles
Hope in the recession
15 12 2009In a special issue on the recession in Refresh: The Journal of Contemplative Spirituality - the journal of Spiritual Growth Ministries of Aotearoa New Zealand – I’ve got an article called “Where is our hope?” – pp.45-46. The full journal can be accessed online here
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Tags: Christian, Hope, Recession
Categories : Christian writing, Published Writing
International education conference papers
9 12 2009The refereed papers I delivered recently in Canberra, at the 20th ISANA International Education Association conference, are now available online: one paper on foreign relations and international education and another on Asian business graduates in New Zealand.
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Tags: International students, International education., Foreign Affairs., Diaspora
Categories : Academic writing, Conference papers, Published articles
Interview on ASB Breakfast (TV3)
25 11 2009Watch an interview with me on ASB Breakfast, on TV3, broadcast live at 6.30am on Wednesday 25 November, about Asian students.
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Categories : Media articles, Other, Research reports
Friends, foreign and domestic
25 11 2009Read a new article of mine on export education and foreign policies in New Zealand, which is published in Policy Quarterly, the journal of Victoria University of Wellington’s Institute of Policy Studies.
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Tags: Colombo Plan, Foreign Affairs., International students
Categories : Academic writing, Published articles
Subscribe to this blog
17 11 2009You can now subscribe to this blog by email, using the button to the right of the screen.
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Full NZPR article now online
10 11 2009The full text (in PDF) of the New Zealand Population Review article on international students, which was recently published, is now available – along with the full text of many other publications – on the articles, chapters and reports section of this website.
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Tags: Asia, International relations; foreign affairs; Asia; international students, New Zealand population.
Categories : Academic writing, Christian writing, Conference papers, Published Writing, Published articles
Migrant Christian communities in New Zealand: Observations and Missiological Reflections
9 11 2009Read the paper ‘Migrant Christian communities in New Zealand: Observations and Missiological Reflections’ that George Wieland and I presented at the Aotearoa New Zealand Association of Mission Studies Mini-Symposium at Laidlaw College on October 31, 2009.
A brief precis of the mini-symposium is here on the Laidlaw College website.
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Tags: Asia, Christian migrants., churches, theology, mission
Categories : Academic writing, Christian writing, Conference papers
New article on Asian students
2 11 2009Based on a paper presented at the International Metropolis Conference on Migration, in Melbourne, in 2007 and on a paper commissioned by the Asia New Zealand Foundation in that same year, is an article co-authored by me, Terry McGrath and Paul Stock:
A. Butcher, T. McGrath and P. Stock (2009), ‘Once Returned, Twice Forgotten? Asian Students Returning Home After Studying in New Zealand in R. Bedford, W. Friesen and A. Zodgekar (eds.), New Zealand Population Review, 33 & 34: 235-248
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Tags: Asia, Asian students, International students
Categories : Academic writing, Published articles
For whom the bell tolls
22 10 2009An exciting and inspirational initiative from Dunedin churches, spear-headed by Otago University’s chaplain Greg Hughson
http://www.ch9.co.nz/content/churches-ring-their-bells-350-times
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Categories : Christian writing, Meditations