Watch an interview with me on ASB Breakfast, on TV3, broadcast live at 6.30am on Wednesday 25 November, about Asian students.
Interview on ASB Breakfast (TV3)
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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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Categories : Academic writing, Published articles
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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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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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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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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
Tawa-ville
15 10 2009My best friend has recently moved back to Tawa, where both he and I grew up together.
I returned to Tawa 18 months ago and he’s experiencing those strange re-entry encounters that come from returning to this Pleasantville-like suburb, nestled between a women’s prison at its southern border and a mental hospital at its northern border, with seven churches down its Main Road.
You find that people don’t actually leave Tawa (or, if they try to, they return.) So you meet people, like your former German teacher, in the bookstore; or find that your former colleagues in the supermarket or petrol station where you worked as a school student are still working there.
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New article – Reporting superdiversity
13 10 2009A new article by Professor Paul Spoonley and myself called ‘Reporting Superdiversity: The mass media and immigration in New Zealand’ has just been published in the Journal of Intercultural Studies (30, 4, 2009, pp. 355-372).
Electronic and/or hard copies are only available through institutional library subscriptions, or can be purchased online, both via this link
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The Stranger in our Midst
7 10 2009An article by George Wieland and I on how Christians may respond to migrant communities in New Zealand called “The Stranger in our Midst” can be found in the latest issue of Daystar Magazine – Oct/Nov 2009, Vol 9, No.6, pp.24-26. It appears it is published in hard copy only.
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