Filipino New Zealander

infobox ethnic group
group = Filipino New Zealanders


poptime = 17,000 [citation|url=http://www.stats.govt.nz/census/2006-census-data/quickstats-about-culture-identity/quickstats-about-culture-and-identity.htm?page=para015Master|contribution=QuickStats About Culture and Identity|title=2006 Census|date=2007-04-19|accessdate=2008-04-11|publisher=Statistics New Zealand]
(2006)
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popplace = Auckland, Wellington, Tauranga, Hamilton
langs = Tagalog, other Philippine languages, English
rels = Roman Catholicism, Protestantism, Other Christian Denominations, Islam, and others
related = Filipino people, Overseas Filipinos, Chinese Filipinos, Spanish Filipinos, Malay Australians, Samoan New Zealanders, Maori, Austronesians

Filipino New Zealanders (colloquially, 'Kiwi-pinos') consist of New Zealander citizens who migrated from the Philippines, and their descendants. The 1936 Census found six New Zealand residents born in the Philippines, and the country's intake of Filipino students began to increase in 1960, under the Colombo Plan; however, even as late as 1981, there were only 405 Filipinos in New Zealand. It would take until the 1990s before highly populated regions such as Wellington and Auckland (especially the suburbs of Henderson and Mount Roskill) began to see exponential growth in their respective Filipino communities. [ citation|last=Walrond|first=Karl|url=http://www.teara.govt.nz/NewZealanders/NewZealandPeoples/Filipinos/en|chapter=New Zealand Peoples: Filipinos|date=2008|title=Te Ara Encyclopedia of New Zealand|publisher=Ministry for Culture and Heritage|isbn=978-0-478-18451-8|date=2007-09-21|accessdate=2008-04-11] They are the next-largest non-Hispanic ethnic group with Spanish surnames after Spanish-New Zealanders and Latin American-New Zealanders (except Brazilians), and Eurasian persons with Spanish surnames born to Filipino fathers and non-Spanish white mothers may be mistaken as Spanish New Zealanders..fact|date=May 2008 The communities themselves are known for their many Philippine-related celebrations, particularly the celebration of Philippine Independence Day every year on the Sunday nearest to the June 12. In April 2008, New Zealand's embassy indicated that they would like to increase the intake of nurses and engineers from the Philippines. [citation|url=http://www.gmanews.tv/video/20659/New-Zealand-needs-Filipino-nurses|periodical=GMA News|title=New Zealand needs Filipino nurses|date=2008-04-07|accessdate=2008-04-11]

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