{"id":32181,"date":"2021-05-17T18:18:55","date_gmt":"2021-05-17T09:18:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/may\/17\/new-zealand-to-cut-low-skill-immigration-and-refocus-on-wealthy"},"modified":"2021-05-17T18:18:55","modified_gmt":"2021-05-17T09:18:55","slug":"new-zealand-to-cut-low-skill-immigration-and-refocus-on-wealthy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=32181","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand to cut \u2018low-skill\u2019 immigration and refocus on wealthy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Government signals sweeping changes to address \u2018reliance on temporary migrant labour\u2019<\/p>\n<p>New Zealand has become an increasingly appealing destination for those seeking a haven \u2013 from Covid-19, economic recession or chaotic international politics. In recent years, the country gained a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2017\/feb\/17\/billionaires-bolthole-new-zealand-preppers-paradise\">reputation for \u201cbillionaires\u2019 boltholes\u201d,<\/a> as mega-rich speculators including Peter Thiel bought up remote properties in scenic, isolated regions.<\/p>\n<p>But in a post-Covid world, the emigration dream will be less accessible \u2013 at least for those who don\u2019t fall into the mega-rich category. On Monday, the New Zealand government announced it would be narrowing pathways for those hoping to migrate and work in the country, particularly those it classed as \u201clow-skill\u201d and low-wage workers. It simultaneously announced new measures to attract rich investors.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/may\/17\/new-zealand-to-cut-low-skill-immigration-and-refocus-on-wealthy\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Government signals sweeping changes to address \u2018reliance on temporary migrant labour\u2019New Zealand has become an increasingly appealing destination for those seeking a haven \u2013 from Covid-19, economic recession or chaotic international politics. In recent&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2188,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,1054,56,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-labour-party","category-new-zealand","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2188"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32181"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32181\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32182,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32181\/revisions\/32182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}