lecture 19 - Māori urban migration

Question 1

What were the push factors for urban migration?

Answer 1

Overpopulation and strain on limited rural resources, unemployment, isolation, cultural /traditional confines, inaccessibility to medical care

Question 2

What were the pull factors for urban migration?

Answer 2

Economic security, higher education, adventure, independence, war effort

Question 3

What were the recommendations of the Hunn Report of 1960?

Answer 3

Encouraged Māori to urbanise and assimilate

Question 4

What were the challenges to employment during Māori urban migration?

Answer 4

Many Māori were unskilled, large redundancies in the 1980s

Question 5

What is pepper-potting?

Answer 5

Attempts to assimilate Māori by placing them in homes amongst pakeha domianted suburbs. Aimed to divide Māori communities

Question 6

What was the goal of the Māori Women’s Welfare League, started in 1943?

Answer 6

To connect urban Māori women to their tribal roots