This review examines the current literature on Pacific youth offending in New Zealand.
Pacific Island youth offenders are over-represented in the rates of violent offenses, despite …

The value, power and skill of Māori and Pacific whānau and their associated processes are
often under-estimated and under-valued within health care. However, collectively, whānau …

The degree to which agency and identity are experienced as individualised or relational
constructs have been widely debated in the sociological literature. Yet, at the centre of these …

To date, much of the analysis of child support has drawn on normative Western
understandings of family structures and the organisation and enactment of gender relations …

This qualitative study describes the perceptions of 18 parents of Samoan ethnicity from
Tokoroa, New Zealand. The aims of the study were to: 1) investigate the perceptions of …

Shared post-separation parenting has become legally and culturally idealised across many
Western jurisdictions. Shared parental responsibility is often accompanied by a presumption …

This ethnographic research follows the migration journeys of 15 Pasifika women teaching
English in South Korea. Guided by the metaphor of a gogo's life cycle, this dissertation …

In this article, we draw on concept of family display to examine how collectivist
understandings of family intersect with gender to shape mothers' and fathers' post …

Separated mothers and fathers, of necessity, face the question of how they should organise
care for their children once they live across two households. The use of 'should'in the …

Since the mid-1980s, New Zealand has experienced extensive economic, social and
political reforms. The economic impact of these changes has been closely monitored and …