This project explored how Māori migrants, while striving for greater economic development, have nonetheless been able to maintain a distinctive Māori identity. A particular focus of the research was how these overseas Māori groups see the relationship between their cultural identity as Māori and their pursuit and achievement of economic success. The project looked at how these overseas communities and individuals perceive their relationship to ‘home’ and the new forms of Māori governance structures that have emerged in the last twenty years in New Zealand, as well as investigating the novel forms of community governance structures that they themselves have created.