Fair borders?: migration policy in the twenty-first century David Hall

Debates over immigtation are heating up – with grave political consequences. The principal question is who is permitted to enter a nation and what standing they have within. Fair borders draws together academic and non-academic writers to discuss whether New Zealand’s immigration policy offers a ‘fair go’ to those just arriving, and to those who arrived a long time ago.

In this book, 15 writers with diverse personal and scholarly backgrounds examine issues of identity as both departing point and destination.

They reflect common themes and a deep understanding of identity.

Augie Fleras

Examines why cultural and national identity have changed dramatically in New Zealand in the latter part of the twentieth century, with the emergence of policies on biculturalism, the development of new immigrant communities, and the increased focus on the Treaty of Waitangi and the settlement of Treaty claims.

Records the Pacific rights and social activist movement in New Zealand, told by those who were there. Drawing on interviews, memoirs, poetry, newspaper articles and critical analysis, Polynesian Panthers is a thought-provoking account of this period in New Zealand.

Monty Soutar

A fascinating look at the Pioneer Battalion (the Battalion created for Māori to serve) that sheds light on the reasons why some men signed on to serve, and others staunchly resisted the call to join the imperial conflict.

This collection tells the story of New Zealanders, Australians and Candians at war from the Boer War in South Africa to the Empires involvement in the cataclysmic struggle of 1914-1918.

Sherayl McNabb

The book tells the story of the struggle to have a military nursing service established and the ensuing misfortunes and achievements of the nurses who have served and continue to serve.

Wira Gardiner

A truly unique insight into the impact the Second World War had on the iwi of the central North Island and Bay of Plenty districts (including Te Arawa, Ngāti Tūwharetoa, Tūhoe, Te Whānau-a-Apanui, Ngāti Maru and Ngāti Paoa) focusing on the region’s war effort not only overseas, but also at home and in government.

The New Zealand (Māori) Pioneer Battalion was formed as a Māori unit on 1 September 1917. Its forerunners were the Māori contingents, the first of which, Te Hokowhitu a Tū … sailed from New Zealand in February 1915 and the New Zealand Pioneer Battalion, which was formed as a unit of the New Zealand Division almost exactly one year later.

Christopher Pugsley, Laurie Barber, Buddy Mikaere

First published as Scars on the Heart and based on the Auckland Museum's permanent exhibition of the same name, this is a rich and fascinating account of the impact of war through the eyes of those involved, using photographs, paintings, letters and diaries. This new edition has the latest information on New Zealanders as peacekeepers in the Middle East, the Pacific and Afghanistan, including the awarding of the Victoria Cross to Colonel Willie Apiata.

Ian McGibbon

An essential travel companion for anyone visiting Gallipoli.

Chris Maclean

In the aftermath of the First World War, New Zealanders considered their part in the conflict with pride and sorrow. Agreement as to the nature and location of war memorials was often elusive and communities, both large and small, frequently took a long time to reach some kind of consensus. The National War Memorial was no exception, and it wasn't completed until 1964, by then encompassing remembrance for both World Wars.

Nicola Wheen, Janine Hayward, Michael Belgrave.

Here leading scholars consider the impact of Treaty settlements on the management and ownership of key resources (lands, forests and fisheries); they look at the economic and social consequences for Māori, and the impact of the settlement process on Crown–Māori relationships. And they ask ‘how successful has the settlement process been?'

Healing our history: the challenge of the Treaty of Waitangi Bob and Joanna Consedine

The book updates and expands on the critical issues: the foreshore and seabed debate, Maori access to political power, and the emergence of the Maori Party; the remarkable growth of the Maori economy, self-determination, Maori language and the developments in Maori education; constitutional issues, and the benefits of the Treaty settlement process.

Vince O’Malley

The signing of the Treaty of Waitangi in 1840 has profoundly shaped relations between Māori and Pākehā in New Zealand – from the New Zealand Wars to the 1975 Land March, from Kingitanga to the Waitangi Tribunal, from Te Whiti to Don Brash.

Margaret Mutu

The State of Māori Rights brings together a set of articles written between 1994 and 2009. It places on record the Māori view of events and issues that took place over these years – issues that have been more typically reported to the general public from a mainstream media perspective.

Keith Newman

After the Treaty of Waitangi was signed, a succession of governors resisted missionary advice, and influenced a raft of misunderstandings that provoked violent outbursts across the country.

Peter Adds, Bronwyn Wood

Covers the early settlement of New Zealand, including Māori migration, settlement, life and interaction in various areas of New Zealand over time, the physical environment and how people interact with the landscape.

Anne Salmond

Dame Anne Salmond looks at New Zealande as a site of cosmo-diversity, a place where multiple worlds engage and collide. Beginning with a fine-grained inquiry into the early period of encounters between Māori and Europeans in New Zealand. Salmond then investigates such clashes and exchanges in key areas of contemporary life; waterways, land, the sea and people.

Examines contemporary development in Māori as well as this nation’s aspirations for greater autonomy, legal battles and conflicting attitudes between Māori and the Crown.

Keith Sinclair

Bringing one thousand years of history to life, this is an illustrated history of New Zealand from the settlement by Polynesians to the present day. The book covers the period of colonisation after the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi, the wars between the Maori and the British Army of the 1860s, the beginning of party government in the 1890s, votes for women in 1893, fighting in South Africa and Europe, the Depression, the Maori drift to towns, the influx of Pacific Islanders, and the economic reforms since the fourth Labour Government.

Donna Awatere

In Māori Sovereignty (1984), Awatere argues the cost to Māori of cultural imperialism and the importance of indigenous peoples recovering their own cultures. Awatere also outlined what Māori sovereignty meant to her and illustrated the duplicitous nature of New Zealand monoculturalism and the violence of white imperialism. In her words she concluded that there was “no sitting on fence, for Māori, without sovereignty we are dead as a nation. It is not sovereignty or no sovereignty. It is sovereignty or nothing. We have no choice.”

Bronwyn Elsmore

In the period from 1820 to 1920, more than 60 prophets arose in New Zealand leading distinctive movements in response to the message brought by Christian missionaries. The book analyses the principal influences in Māori religious movements.

Danny Keenan

When open conflict between Māori and Imperial forces broke out in the 1840s and 1860s, the struggles intensified. For both sides, land was at the heart of the conflict, one that casts a long shadow over race relations in modern-day NZ.

Vincent O’Malley

This book provides a highly accessible introduction to the causes, events and consequences of the New Zealand wars.

John Crawford, I.C. McGibbon [editors]

"The New Zealand Wars of the 19th century are among the most profound influences on the development of modern New Zealand" - Sir Jerry Mataparae