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British immigrants, 2008

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British immigrants, 2008

Trading ties between Britain and New Zealand waned, but people-to-people links – which also had an economic content – flourished. The Brannigans were part of a British migrant flow which saw numbers of UK-born citizens increase substantially in the early 2000s, after a long period of decline.

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Malcolm McKinnon, International economic relations – Britain, New Zealand and Europe after 1940, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/24807/british-immigrants-2008 (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Malcolm McKinnon, published 2 March 2010.