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New Zealand extensively promotes the 'Kiwi lifestyle' as closely connected to leisure activities, therapeutic landscapes and welcoming communities. This chapter tells the stories of the migrants who generally were enticed to New Zealand for lifestyle reasons. Lifestyle reasons and expectations were remarkable similar for participants in the qualitative study and survey respondents. Discourses intersecting in their post-migration experiences exemplify the differences between their expectations and New Zealand realities. The narrated experiences of the main study combine in this chapter with the survey responses into the story of migration for the first migrant generation, their positive and negative experiences of New Zealand life as well as this generation’s long-term ties to the country and people.
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1899–1959. During the National Socialist regime, Schütz went into exile to France because of his Jewish ancestry; he then migrated to the USA.
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New Zealand sausages.
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Traditionally, thin veal cutlets (but increasingly, cheaper pork cutlets) dipped in egg, crumbed and fried, served with a lemon wedge and potato salad. Showing immigrant influences in New Zealand, cuts for these Vienna cutlets are sold as Wiener schnitzel or misspelled Weiner schnitzel in local supermarkets.
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Named after Otto von Bismarck: In 1889, the German government under chancellor Bismarck introduced this compulsory old age pension system, for which employer and employee each pay half of the ongoing contributions.
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In Austria, each state has its own version of this minimum social security law.
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Only ultimately bailed out by the state should the system fail.
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Wohlfart, I.K. (2017). G1—Lifestyle Migrants. In: Intergenerational Consequences of Lifestyle Migration. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-3260-8_5
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