IMMIGRATION FROM CHINA
IN CONFIDENCE
5. Hong Kong's capacity to accept immigrants, even temporarily,
is severely limited by the strain imposed on its essential services
by an already overcrowded population
densely populated places in the world.
constant problem.
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Hong Kong is one of the most
Immigration thus constitutes a
The numbers even of legal immigrants are well above what Hong Kong
can absorb comfortably, and illegal immigration from China remains at
a high level despite efforts by both the Chinese and the Hong Kong authorities
to control it.
REFUGEES FROM VIETNAM
7. Since the fall of Saigon in 1975, Hong Kong has had to contend
with a rising tide of refugees. Some 14,000 former residents of
Indo-China, many with family connections in Hong Kong, have been
allowed to settle in the Colony. In addition to those who are
admitted for permanent resettlement, the Hong Kong Government have
also traditionally allowed refugees from Vietnam who reach Hong Kong in small
boats or who are picked up at sea by vessels approaching Hong Kong to
land temporarily while the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
takes responsibility for arranging their eventual resettlement in other
countries. (Some have already been accepted into Britain).
In February 1980 there were still nearly 50,000 Vietnamese refugees
temporarily in Hong Kong awaiting resettlement.
Hong Kong is desperately short.
Accommodation for them in
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