The Origins of Cook Island Migration to New Zealand, 1920-1950

• Main Author: Anderson, Rosemary Ellen
• Other Authors: Bennett, Judith A., Wanhalla, Angela C.
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: University of Otago 2015
• Subjects: Cook Islands; New Zealand; migrant women; migration; domestic service; citizenship; Rarotongan Contingent; New Zealand Māori; Cook Islands Maori; indigenous soldiers; colonial hierarchies; Pacific; Young Island; Cook Island
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10523/5447

It is a little known fact that New Zealand was both a British colony and imperial power in the Pacific during the twentieth century. From 1901 to 1965, under the pretext of a civilising mission, New Zealand exercised moral responsibility for the Cook Islands. Beneficent overtones concealed the colon...