they are not permitted to seek outside employment. The se
camps are run by the Hong Kong Government with assistance
from UNHCR and voluntary agencies.
been
The Jubilee
Camp, where I understand Miss Dew
worked, is an open camp located in Sham Shui Po, which is
in the main urban area of the Kowloon Peninsula. It has
a particularly difficult camp to run, mainly because
the rate of resettlement from the camp has been very low.
All the
the refugees in the camp are ethnic Vietnamese from
South Vietnam, usually of rural and poor educational
background, and many of their cases have been looked at
by at least one resettlement country and rejected. The
birth rate at the camp has been higher than at other
camps, partly because of the refugees' background and
partly because of the reluctance of CARITAS, the Catholic
voluntary agency who were running the camp, to implement
Miss Dew may
a
proper birth control programme there.
like to know that CARITAS have now been
replaced by
another voluntary agency, the International Rescue
Committee.
Since December 1984, UNHCR has also been conducting
a special campaign to increase resettlement from Jubilee,
wi th the aim of substantially reducing the camp
This has had some success, but the
population.
population still stands at 2,200.