Refashioning Racism: Immigration, Multiculturalism and an Election Year

We wish to examine a number of events arising from statements made by New Zealand First leader Winston Peters during the 1996 election campaign and the public response to them. In focusing upon some of the unexpected and sometimes contradictory responses to Peters’s comments, our intent is to map out some of the important ays that the contours of the geographies of racism are shifting during the latter half of the 1990s in Aotearoa.