He is allowed to stay in New Zealand permanently because the Government deemed his skills useful to the country.

Every story of a displaced person freezing to death this winter will also be the story of our government doing too little, too late, writes Murdoch Stephens.

New Zealand is becoming a super diverse nation, but its diversity story is a stratified one - drawn along ethnic and economic lines.

Tauranga's long-held image as a retirement haven for mainly Pakeha New Zealanders no longer holds true.

A row has erupted over a planned theme park in Calais that its mayor hopes will rehabilitate the image of a town tainted by its association with squalid migrant camps.

New Zealand recorded its highest net migration gain last year.

Editorial: While it is in our interests to provide all reasonable assistance to enable them to establish a new life here, we should not sympathise with their predicament too much.

Many have spent most of their lives in Australia. They're now starting to end up dumped at Auckland Airport, separated from family and friends, and expected to survive as best they can, writes Brian Rudman.

New Zealand has had a record net gain in migrants of 61,200 in the September year, driven by more Kiwis coming home and fewer leaving for Australia.

A New Zealand Labour MP is waiting on Christmas Island to hear if he'll be granted access to an Australian detention centre where Kiwis are being held.

Disabled man had no friends or family here and landed with only $200 and a voucher for a week's accommodation.

Immigration New Zealand confirmed yesterday that the sex workers, including one who had passed a secret note to a client seeking help, were on temporary visas.

Kiwi tells of cruise ship helping refugees in rubber dinghy.

In recent years, newly sworn-in Australian prime ministers have taken to scurrying across the Tasman to meet their New Zealand counterpart as the concluding rite of passage.

Star builder Martin Laidlaw has been barred from site and is facing deportation after Immigration New Zealand rejected his visa application.

Cristobal Espinosa came to New Zealand from the Philippines last year to work on a dairy farm, but now he is worried about being sent back.

Police have interviewed a man over claims a prostitute wrote a note seeking help and secretly handed it to him.

Donna Mojab asks, could all those kind-hearted Austrians and Germans, who clap and cheer refugees, actually be welcoming terrorists to Europe? What a great plan by ISIS, right? No, not right.

Editorial: No government likes to have its immigration decisions made by others But many governments are being led by their better citizens in this crisis. New Zealand's is one of them.

The huge inflow of refugees into Europe is a direct challenge to the concept of nation states with defined borders able to exert control over who enters these borders, writes Peter Lyons.

Migration can be a double-edged sword, says investment adviser Mark Lister.

Kiribati family who claimed they were climate change refugees say they won't be welcomed home.

New Zealand's annual net migration rose to a record in August as Indian and Chinese students continued to flock to courses offered by local educational institutions.

They flee because they fear, indeed they know, that they will not survive in the environment they are in, writes Maria Hayward. They just want to be able to be safe.

Hundreds attended a rally in Auckland today calling for the Government to welcome significantly more refugees to New Zealand.

A Kiribati family who claimed to be the world's first refugees from climate change will have to leave their rented house in West Auckland after the father was detained this week.

Today, for millions of people, the difference between living in war or peace, between prosperity and starvation, between self-determination and oppression, are determined purely by geography and borders.

New Zealand must avoid putting off high net-worth investors from coming here, says Economic Development Minister Steven Joyce.