Dutch immigrants in New Zealand: some adjustment problems, and some variables in the adjustment process.

Abstract

Six years ago there were a few hundred Dutch people in New Zealand; some of these had come from Indonesia where the Dutch were being driven out, some of these had been here since the beginning of the war, and some had come from Holland since the war. These were the first trickle of a big migration wave which in the next 5 years increased the number of Dutch immigrants in New Zealand to 13,000. Now Dutch people are found all over the country, in the backblocks and in the cities, and in a great variety of jobs. They came from overcrowded Holland in response to the campaign for Dutch immigrants for underpopulated New Zealand. These immigrants, or more precisely, these immigrants in the context of such of their psychological problems as derive from the fact of their being immigrants, form the subject of this study.