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Table 2:

Cumulative Resettlement Programmes for Boat Refugees from Hong Kong and Asean

This table

vers all programmes of 100 or more (plus Japan). The figures in brackets after the total number who have been resettled in each country give the per- centage which have been taken respectively from Hong Kong, Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, the Philippines and Singapore:

COUNTRY

TOTAL BOAT

REFUGEES

H.K.

1

RESETTLED

MAL

PERCENTAGE FROM:

IND THAI PHIL

SING

U.S.A.

90,760

13

55

13 12

4

2

AUSTRALIA

21,450

4

66

15

13

2

مر

1

CANADA.

20,620

23

59

9

4

FRG

8,060

20

41

20

པ

9

FRANCE

7,660

2

46

UK

4,890

80

10 10

7

22

1 5

457

15

6

Ø

6

NETHERLANDS

2,090

13

50

Ø

3

6

28

SWITZERLAND

1,860

3

84

1

8

3

Ø

SWEDEN

1,560

1

59

41

Q

Ø

Ø

ITALY

1.540

7

24

Ø

7

Ø

61

NORWAY

1,260

2

1

Ø

26

3

68

DENMARK

950

17

34

15

23

BELGIUM

860

12

50

13

3 4

3.

00

8

1

20

ISRAEL

300

13

Ø

Ø

21

52

14

;

AUSTRIA

290

00

8

66

11

10

dup.

Ø

*

IRELAND

210

51

49

Ø

Ø

Ø

HONG KONG

192

39

32

Ø

1

+

4

Ø

FINLAND

100

Ø

100 Ø

Ø

Ø

Ø

JAPAN

90

16

35

Ø

Ø

6

41

TOTAL

163,740

14.9

54.5

12.3 11.4

4.2

4.2

NOTE: THE COMPARATIVELY HIGH FIGURES FOR THAILAND PARTLY REFLECT

THE FACT THAT SOME COUNTRIES PREFER TO TAKE BOAT REFUGEES RATHER

THAN LAND REFUGEES (AND THIS TABLE DOES NOT, OF COURSE, TAKE INTO ACCOUNT THE HUGE NUMBER OF LAND REFUGEES IN THAILAND): FOR SINGAPO ARE

THE PERCENTAGES ARE VIRTUALLY MEANINGLESS SINCE REFUGEES ARE ONLY

ALLOWED TO STAY IN SINGAPORE AFTER A GUARANTEE OF RESETTLEMENT

HAS BEEN RECEIVED. THE FIGURES THEREFORE REFLECT RESCUES AT SEA

BY SHIPS OF MARITIME COUNTRIES.

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