DSR 11C
The
open
camps are run by the local office
of the
United Nations
High Commissioner for Refugees (UNCHR)
The
with the assistance of various voluntary agencies.
run by the Hong Kong Government, in
closed camps are
cooperation wi th UNHCR and voluntary agencies. In all
the camps, refugees are provided with food, medical,
welfare, educational, training and sports facilities.
The Jubilee Camp, which Ms Good rum says she
visited,
is an open camp located
in
Sham Shui
Po,
which
It
is in the main urban area of the Kowloon Peninsula.
was originally opened as a transit camp in 1979 when the
influx of refugees into Hong Kong was at its peak. When
the number of arrivals fell it was converted in to
reception centre for newly arriving refugees. However in
mid-1982
delays
in
antagonisms between
resettlement
and
historical
to disorder in the
Tak.
Northern and Southern Vietnamese led
only remaining transit camp, at Kai
Jubilee was reopened at very short notice as a
second transit centre, in order to relieve some of the
pressure upon Kai Tak.
By European standards Jubilee is indeed crowded, as
this is also true of
are all the camps; unfortunately
many other areas of Hong Kong, which has a population
density 20 times that of the UK.
allocated
to refugee
In general the space
families
is
families
allocated to squatter
housing areas in Hong Kong.
similar to that
resited to
temporary