Comprehensive Report: New Zealand's Quality of Life for New Migrants

This report, prepared for an independent immigrant consultant organization, assesses the quality of life for new migrants in New Zealand, addressing Elizabeth Grove's interest in contentment disparities across gender, culture, and age. It explores factors contributing to migrant satisfaction, such as work-life balance, good governance, common language, improved accommodation, favorable work conditions, and affordable living costs. The report also identifies disparities in satisfaction among ethnic, gender, and age groups, and provides practical recommendations for government implementation to enhance migrants' quality of life in both the short and long term. The report emphasizes the need for effective settlement support services, improved data recording, and enhanced information provided to prospective immigrants to foster realistic expectations and improved satisfaction levels.

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Topic 1 – New Zealand’s Quality Of Life for New Migrants
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Introduction
This report is written to independent immigrant consultant organization that deals with
migrants within New Zealand. Besides, this statement is also addressed to Elizabeth Grove who
is one of directors of NZ migrant that had an interest of understanding where there exists some of
the principal disparities in contentment among diverse gender, cultural, or age clusters on how
migrants are pleased in their present operations within New Zealand. This report aims to
extensively assess condition of wellbeing for new migrants within New Zealand. It also
addresses various practicable suggestions that may be instigated by authority for enhancing
migrant’s superiority of operation in short as well as lasting term
It has been known in most places that it is good news to be in New Zealand. Various
people have reported that New Zealand welcomes several migrants from all over the global
society. In most nations, migrants tend to struggle or find it harder to integrate into daily
operations (Nemec, 2017). However, life in New Zealand for migrants is much easier than in the
majority of nations around the global society. The nation is widely regarded as an exclusive
region, renowned for its natural beauty, customs, financial freedom, along with the improved
quality of life. New migrants have to focus on ensuring they are not affected by any negative
factor in the process that they are trying to settle in the region (Ben, 2013). It is a fact that
moving to the new region or country remains to be a big life change that consists of several
adjustments. New Zealand on the other end as work-life balance just appropriate making
migrants to have an easy time to settle in the region (Lee & Zhou, 2019). The appropriate work-
life balance remains to be the major reason as to why the region consistently leads the global
quality of life surveys to be the best region why new migrants are satisfied.

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New migrants are contented with their current operations in New Zealand
Several major reasons exist as to why new immigrants are contended with their present
lives within New Zealand. New Zealand is constantly changing as families arrive on their
boundaries or sore. Additional migrants are selecting New Zealand to be their nation of choice
for the new life (Diamond, 2016). Although most people see it that it is natural to miss home,
most migrants discover the value of life within New Zealand to be enhanced when they compare
with the quality of their lives in their native or previous nations. The lists of factors that make
migrants contented their present operations within New Zealand are diverse (Gathmann, 2017).
For instance, enhanced work-life balance for immigrants makes them to feel satisfied in their
operations. Migrant’s sense of belonging to the country, their overall satisfaction with living in
the New Zealand, as well as a sense of being treated fairly by employers and general community
around them make them to settle well in the country. According to a study conducted by Maré,
Morten, & Stillman (2017), good governance in New Zealand is one of the major factors that
encourage settlement of migrants in their current life in the region. The use of common language
in the region makes it easy for migrants that understand English to have an easy time to
communicate with the locals. The idea of using a common language improves interaction
techniques within the region.
Improved accommodation structure
The migrants that arrive in the region such as in the city of Auckland can easily get
accommodation. Arriving in the city with no prearranged accommodation has made it tough for
migrants to settle faster in the region (Brosnahan, 2017). However, with the presence of different
agencies that deal with the housing sector in the city has made it easy for migrants to get a house

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as per an individual structure around the community. Establishment of such agencies at various
immigration centers offer a great opportunity for migrants to select their preferred destinations,
type of accommodation that they need, and the amount of money to spend on accommodation
(MagallónPortolés, 2016). The adequate availability of houses has improved the work rate of
migrants in their new workplaces as they spend little or no time moving around cities within
New Zealand to look for accommodation.
Improved work conditions and wages in New Zealand
The friendly immigration regulations of the country have emerged since the nation has
witnessed the unwelcoming reduction in its population. Ability to offer the more relaxed as well
as stress-free ethics to that of other nations has been essential in improving operations of
migrants. The office setting in most organizations is certainly less cut-throat. In most instances,
an individual will find the working week to be around forty hours (Page-Reeves, Shrum, Rohan-
Minjares, & Murrietta, 2018). The reduction in several working hours as compared to different
regions where migrants are coming from makes it possible for the individuals to adapt faster to
their current lives.
Cost of living
Migrants that reside in New Zealand are capable of enjoying the higher standard of living
in comparison to other developing nations. Obviously, the cost of living in the current global
society is going up. The increase is due to the variations in basic needs and development of
different products due to advancement in technologies (Fagan & Kearns, 2017). Some other
factors that lead to variation in value of living for migrants within New Zealand depend on the
city they reside in and the kind of job that they have in the region. The migrants in most cases

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tend to occupy jobs that are well paying or jobs that the country does not have experts to
perform. Such jobs have made various migrants to negotiate for huge wages that make them to
have a good life (Becerra, Arias, & Becerra, 2016). For instance, they can afford basic needs and
reside in secure and good houses within the region.
Improved basic amenities
The presence of standard amenities that are vital for the advancement of migrants and
their families remains to be one of the factors that have improved their current lives. The
presence of good schools, communication networks, transport networks, and good houses are
some of the major aspects that improve the lives of migrants as they settle in the region. For
instance, good schools have enabled the migrants to move with their children to New Zealand to
study as they take a close look at their operations (Sun, 2014). They are always satisfied with
their current lives as they have the full control to watch the advancements of their kids rather
than leaving the under care or relatives or friends when they move to the region.
Main disparities in satisfaction amid ethnic, sex, or age clusters among migrants in New
Zealand
It is clear that the overall contentment of migrants in their present states within New
Zealand is the indicator of subjective wellbeing. The number of differences in circumstances
may impact general life pleasure of migrants within New Zealand. Such differences in elements
consist of education level, health, income, employment sector, family, human rights and societal
connections (Kwon & Morton, 2015). Differences in ethnic, gender and age groups also have a
huge impact on how immigrants within New Zealand are affected in their current operations
along with lives. Dissimilarities in gender lead to disparities and some similarities on how

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migrants are content with their existing operations (Page-Reeves, Shrum, Rohan-Minjares, &
Murrietta, 2018). Male individuals are always satisfied in a huge percentage in their operations in
new regions as they can survive in tough situations than their female counterparts that are
considered to be weak in adapting when faced with tough times.
The differences in ethnicity lead to variation in satisfaction of migrants. For instance,
different studies have shown that white migrants tend to receive huge wages compared to Blacks.
The disparity on wages in terms of color has made it tough for black individuals to be pleased
with their present states within New Zealand as they perform common duty as other white
individuals (Kim, Leung, & Wagman, 2017). The highest paid workers are highly satisfied,
followed by individuals from another Asian ethnic group who are less satisfied with the wage
they receive to support their operations. Additionally, aged migrants receive huge wages due to
their experiences in operations compared to other young individuals (Becerra, Arias, & Becerra
2016). Therefore, as migrant get aged, they become more contended with their present states due
to huge sum of money that they earn for their operations.
Practical recommendations that might be executed by the authority for enhancing new
migrant’s value of life in the short as well as lasting-term
With a huge sum total in number of migrants moving to New Zealand in current times
than ever, there is the need for the government of the region to ensure that individuals follow
every basic regulation before they settle in the region. The sum total of human mobility to New
Zealand is unprecedented and persists to rise at a rapid rate (MagallónPortolés, 2016). The
authority needs to focus on the effectiveness of settlement support services and whether they can
attain desired outcomes. The immigrant agency in New Zealand should concentrate on working

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with government agency partners to offer advice to the authority concerning the improved
settlement. The collaboration can lead to governance structure and approach that can be useful in
supporting targeting as well as efficiently delivering quality services to where they are most
needed (Sun, 2014). The idea can help in improving the living standards of migrants that settle in
the region. It can improve the lives of such migrants by bringing essential services within their
reach.
The ministry department should improve the quality of data it records to the authority.
The data should be more widely comprising of appropriate context data and information about
secondary skilled migrants (Kim, Leung, & Wagman 2017). By focusing on improved
information, ministry in collaboration with New Zealand authority will be able to enhance
techniques for reporting retention leading to improved lives and satisfaction among migrants.
Additionally, the immigration department in the region should concentrate on improving the data
it provides to prospect new immigrants (Nemec, 2017). Provided data can help in having more
realistic expectations of what life will be like in the region.
Conclusion
It is evident from the assessment above that adjusting to a new country by migrants is the
challenge and the steep learning curve for most individuals. Every nation is different in the
manner it treats or provides services to new migrants. For instance, New Zealand has its own
accent together with everyday language that forms an essential factor for adjustment. The need to
hear different conversations or stories from various migrants can help a state to make sense of
their experiences.

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