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Auckland’s people

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Auckland’s people

By 2001 the proportion of New Zealand residents with only European blood had dropped to 70%. The recent migrants from Asia, Africa and the Middle East tended to be more affluent than many immigrants of previous years. Their presence was obvious in New Zealand’s big cities, as this 2004 scene in Auckland suggests.

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Jock Phillips, History of immigration – Multicultural New Zealand: 1991 onwards, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/2165/aucklands-people (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Jock Phillips, published 4 March 2009, updated 1 August 2015.

Comments

Leonardo Cruz
06 September 2011
New Zealand is a very interesting country to see and live. people will be amazed of the scenery and history of this coutnry