The Jubilee camp has been difficult to run in the
past, mainly because the rate of resettlement from it has
been very low. A11 the refugees living there are ethnic
Vietname se from South Vietnam, usually of rural and poor
educational background; and
and many of their cases have been
looked at by a t least one
rejected.
Since December 1984
resettlement country and
however, UNHCR has been
conducting a special campaign to increase resettlement
from Jubilee, with the aim of substantially reducing the
This has had some success, but the
camp population.
population still stands at 2,200.
On the general question of resettlement from Hong
resettlement.
Kong, Ms Goodrum is
UK has agreed to accept some 500 Vietnamese refugees for
This decision was announced in the White
Paper which the Government published on 26 September in
response to the recent report of the Home Affairs Sub-
Committee on Race Relations and Immigration (SCORRI),
"Refugees and Asylum with Special Reference to the
correct in her understanding that the
Vietnamese"
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Most of the refugees will come from
camps
in Hong Kong (a few will come from other places of first
asylum in South East Asia). They all have relatives in
the UK, but their cases would normally have fallen
outside the Home Office's immigration criteria for family
Altogether some 19,000 Indo-Chinese
reunion cases.
refugees, including over 12,000 from Hong Kong, have been
resettled in the UK since 1975.
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