The growing number of elderly Chinese migrants entering New Zealand to reunite with family and being left alone is a major concern, an immigration expert says.
In data released exclusively to the Herald, Immigration New Zealand revealed that since 2011, nearly 11,000 of the migrants older than 50 who entered New Zealand within the NZ Residence Programme are from China.
The figure is about four times more than the UK and India, which are second and third on the table, and more than half of the total 21,742 approved in the last five years.
Massey University sociologist Paul Spoonley said New Zealand's immigration policy targets those who can contribute economically, and most tend to be working age.
"But they leave their parents behind and at some point that becomes a concern," said Professor Spoonley.
It is not known how many parents are being left in New Zealand by absent sponsors, but figures obtained under the Official Information Act by the Herald in 2013 showed 31 per cent of the 3000 sponsors who left were Chinese.
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