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With record migration and a fast growing population, New Zealand is changing fast. Who is coming? Does it matter? What benefits will we see and where are the flash points? Will we all get our Slice of Heaven?

Slice of Heaven RNZ Originals

    • Society & Culture
    • 5.0 • 1 Rating

With record migration and a fast growing population, New Zealand is changing fast. Who is coming? Does it matter? What benefits will we see and where are the flash points? Will we all get our Slice of Heaven?

    Slice of Heaven - Choices

    Slice of Heaven - Choices

    It's obvious that immigration has changed New Zealand in the past. But it's difficult to foresee how it will change us in the future. Where will the debate go and can we move past racism? What role will the media play? How will the questions we ask now shape immigration policy in the future? In the final episode of Slice of Heaven, Noelle McCarthy asks; where do we go from here?

    • 32 min
    Slice of Heaven - Theory and Practice

    Slice of Heaven - Theory and Practice

    New Zealand is one of the great immigrant nations. Everyone here has a link to someone from somewhere else. But that doesn't mean everyone can agree on who should get to come here next. In the third episode of Slice of Heaven, Noelle McCarthy investigates immigration in New Zealand and asks; when we build a nation by inviting people in, do we know how it will turn out?

    • 29 min
    Slice of Heaven - Tensions

    Slice of Heaven - Tensions

    Immigration is a hot topic coming up to the election but just talking about it can be a tense experience. In episode two of Slice of Heaven, a 4-part podcast series for RNZ in association with Massey University, Noelle McCarthy asks what those tensions are, who is stoking them and why are we so touchy about it all?

    • 31 min
    Slice of Heaven - Have You Come Far?

    Slice of Heaven - Have You Come Far?

    With record migration and a fast-growing population, Aotearoa/New Zealand is changing. How that will look depends upon the interplay between people here now and those who want to come. So who is coming and does it matter? What is the ideal number of people, what benefits will we see and where are the potential flash points? Can we rely on political leadership to steer us in the right direction? In this four-part podcast series for RNZ in association with Massey University, Noelle McCarthy investigates the state of immigration in New Zealand and asks - when it comes to our Slice of Heaven, is there enough to go around?

    • 30 min

Customer Reviews

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A fantastic podcast and a credit to Noelle as a journalist and a person, there are fantastic interviews in this podcast from both sides of the debate. I found it refreshing to hear insight from new immigrants themselves.

An issue I would love Noelle to explore from her viewpoint is her reluctance to become a New Zealand citizen due to her dislike of the British Monarchy. This brings up the issues of immigrants/integration in a modern society, should a non-citizen have the right to vote in elections? How would she feel if her ability to vote was taken away due to her status as a non-citizen? how integrated can someone be if they won't accept making the head of state their own? Should someone have to swear allegiance to an individual on the other side of the world in order to become a citizen? Does this show that Noelle remains more Irish than a New Zealander? How much of an individual's identity do we demand that they leave behind/conform to in order to become a New Zealander?

I'd love to hear Noelle explore this from her personal experience, overall a fantastic listen and great journalism.

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