Draft:Racism in New Zealand

19th century
A large number of gold miners in the mid 1800s in Otago were Chinese. An anti-Chinese committee was set up in Dunedin in 1857, and in the 1880s groups such as the White Race League and the Anti-Asiatic League were created.

A £10 tax on Asian immigrants was created in 1881, and had a limit of one person per 10 tons of ship cargo. In 1896 it was raised to £100 for 200 tons of cargo. Starting in 1892 naturalisation became free except for the Chinese. From 1908 to 1952 Chinese could not become naturalised in New Zealand.

COVID-19 pandemic
A 2021 survey by the University of Auckland found that 40% of Asian respondents had experienced some form of racism during the COVID-19 pandemic, with its most common forms being in microaggresions and verbal attacks.