Les Familles et Whānau sans Frontières

Around one in five people living in New Zealand were not born here and around 20 percent of people born here are believed to be living overseas.

This means that most people in New Zealand will at one time or another have links to family living overseas and can experience the isolation, lack of support, financial pressures and other difficulties that can result from this separation.

Les Familles et Whānau sans Frontières — New Zealand and Transnational Family Obligation was carried out by a team of researchers at Massey University under the project leadership of Dr Neil Lunt.

The study shows how the ethnicity of New Zealand's population has changed over the years, with a growing number of migrants from Asia, the Middle East, sub Sarahan Africa and more New Zealand-born people with a Pacific heritage. In a little over 15 years it is estimated there will be a million people living in New Zealand who are of Pacific or Asian ethnicity.