1st Edition

Reluctant Exiles? Migration from Hong Kong and the New Overseas Chinese

By Ronald Skeldon Copyright 1995
    380 Pages
    by Routledge

    380 Pages
    by Routledge

    This work presents an assessment of the migration from Hong Kong that has occurred since the second half of the 1980s. This pronounced outflow of highly educated people (a "brain drain") is having a profound impact on destination areas, as well as on Hong Kong itself.

    Preface Part I: Setting the Scene I. Reluctant Exiles or Bold Pioneers: An Introduction to Migration from Hong Kong Part II: The Historical and Geographical Context 2. Hong Kong in an International Migration System 3. Recruitment and Release: Migration Advisers and the Creation of Exile 4. Overseas Chinese Adaptive Organizations, Past and Present Part III: Canada 5. Hong Kong Migration to Canada: The Background 6. Business Immigration to Canada: Deception and Exploitation 7. Hong Kong Immigration and the Chinese Community in Vancouver 8. Hong Kong Immigrants in Toronto 9. Searching for a Safe Haven: The Migration and Settlement of Hong Kong Chinese Immigrants in Toronto Part IV: Australasia 10. The Migration and Settlement of Hong Kong Chinese in Australia II. The Hong Kong Chinese in Sydney 12. The Hong Kong Chinese in Auckland Part V: United States of America 13. Hong Kong Immigrants in San Francisco 14. New York Is Not Hong Kong: The Little Hong Kong That Never Was 15. Hong Kong Chinese in Hawaii: Community Building and Coping Strategies Part VI: A European and an Asian Destination 16. Branches All Over: The Hong Kong Chinese in the United Kingdom 17. The Ethnicity Paradox: Hong Kong Immigrants in Singapore Part VII: Conclusion 18. Migration from Hong Kong: Current Trends and Future Agendas

    Biography

    WANG GUNGWU is Vice-Chancellor of the University of Hong Kong. He taught at the University of Malaya in Singapore, and later at Kuala Lumpur, and was for many years at the Research School of Pacific Studies at the Australian National University, of which he remains an Emeritus Professor. RONALD SKELDON is a Reader in the Department of Geography at the University of Hong Kong. A graduate of the Universities of Glasgow and Toronto, he has carried out fieldwork in Peru and Papua New Guinea and has worked for the United Nations in Bangkok, in several countries in South and Southeast Asia, and in the Pacific.