2
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Resettlement in Hong Kong
4.
While the burden of boat refugees in places of first
asylum is temporary, Hong Kong has also made a major contribution to the regional problem by accepting for permanent settlement some 14,000 refugees and displaced persons from Indo-China who have arrived here since April 1975. These consist of:
Illegal Immigrants and Overstayers (estimated)
(from Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia)
9,000
By special chartered flights organised by the
H.K. Government from Ho Chi Minh City
4,522
By scheduled commercial flights from HCM City
450
Boat refugees from Vietnam
260
Total:
14,232
That figure is equivalent to 285 people from Indo-China being permanently settled for every 100,000 of Hong Kong's population or 35 per square mile (14 per square kilometre).
Resettlement from Hong Kong
5.
Against this massive influx and the role that Hong Kong has already played, the rate at which Vietnamese refugees have been resettled elsewhere from Hong Kong has been disappointingly slow:
No. of refugees departed
1975 -
1978
6,153
Daily Average
1979 January
314
10
February
817
29
March
1,147
37
April
617
21
May
June
500
16
1,608
54
July
1,335
43
August
3,097
100
September 1st - 26th
2.730
105
Sub-total: 1979 to 26 September
12,165
45
Total:
18,318