TNAG-0971-FCO40-1190-Resettlement-of-Vietnamese-refugees-from-Hong-Kong-in-the-UK-1980 — Page 92

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Reporter:

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in fact r oat of Saigon has boon OVUN O- one of these selection

trips simply in order to put every information to the refugees abort

life and we have also prepared film material and I think slides in order

to give people who may be thinking of coming to United Kingdom an idea

of what the country in like which I believe is the right policy. Well

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secondly, of course, we want to know whether they have the desire to

come and we want to know what their family consist of.

will be members of broken families.

Sometimes they

Obviously we want to take note of

who else might come. We want to know whether they have got relations

of any sort in the United Kingdom may be one of the people that I heard

talking yesterday said he got I think is a brother in a town in Scotland.

That'n useful information because when they get to the linited Kingdom

and ith possible to hand on the information to make life easier for

that refugee concerned. So really we are trying to get a picture of

the refugee which can be sent back so that there is a good basis

knowledge to get an idea of what his aptitudes are and also to make a

sort of judgement he is the sort of person who is likely to fit in and

get on well in the United Kingdom.

Raison: Yes, I think it's quite clear that as you have said we are ultimately,

to use the old phrase, the colonial power we have a responsibility for

Hong Kong and of course our policy is to work very closely with the

Government here.

Reporter:

Raison: Well, I think most people have been struck by the fact that the refugees

generally have a strong desire to work.

Certainly the refugees that I

have talked to in the United Kingdom, the one's who have come over have

seemed to me to have a strong motivation to work, Now all sorts of groups

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