One of the main ways that Thai women have emigrated to New Zealand is by marrying Kiwi men. Suwan (pictured in the photographs) was refused a visa to enter New Zealand after she married Wellingtonian Hamish Murphy in Thailand, but she was later granted permanent residency and the couple reunited in May 1998.
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Alexander Turnbull Library, Dominion Post Collection (PAColl-7327)
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EP/1998/1067/32
Photograph by Phil Reid
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