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Title:Shifting Centres : Women & Migration in New Zealand History
Author:Lyndon Fraser & Katie Pickles (ed)
ISBN:1877276324 : 9781877276323
Illustrations:b/w photos & illus
Format:Paperback
Size:155x230mm
Pages:214
Weight: .373 Kg.
Published:University of Otago Press - January 2002
List Price: 15.99 Pounds Sterling
Availability:In Print
Subjects:Australasian & Pacific history: Immigration & emigration: New Zealand


Three graduate students, several academics, and several researchers are the contributors to this collection of accounts by and about women immigrants to New Zealand. The stories, which mainly post-date World War II, consider the experiences of women from a variety of backgrounds and countries, including Germany, China, Samoa, Ireland, as well as native Maori migration from rural to urban centres.