December 06, 2023
Marsden study probes ethnic ressponse to Te Tiriti
Waikato University researchers are looking at how ethnic communities fit in with ideas of citizenship based on Tiriti o Waitangi.
The three-year He Rau Ringa study is being paid for with a $860,000 Marsden Fund grant.
Professor Sandy Morrison says many in those communities want to know where they stand in Aotearoa’s evolving constitutional make up.
“In the treaty work I do, many ethnic people, communities say ‘where’s our place? How can we support Māori?’ And on the other end of the spectrum some come to the workshops because they want to know more and they don’t know what their responsibilities are,” she says
Stats NZ projects ethnic communities will make up about 30 percent of the population of Aotearoa by 2043