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Occupation
Doctors
Nurses/midwives/medical assistants
Teachers
Craftsmen/production workers
Farmers/fishermen.
Students
Others
%
0.8
0.9
2.8
10.8
22.6
23.4
38.7
Total Immigration
When this legal stream is added to the illegal stream, the total extra numbers Hong Kong has had to absorb from immigration is :
1977
31,000
1978
95,000
1979
178,000
(Jan-Sept) 1980
104,000
Vietnamese Refugees
80.000
Hong Kong faces yet another additional burden in the form of the remainder of the 75,000 Vietnamese refugees who have chosen this small, overcrowded territory as their haven pending permanent resettlement in other countries, since October 1978. In spite of the vigorous efforts made by the Government to secure pledges of resettlement from the international community and the generous and humane response of a number of governments, there were still 28,200 refugees from Vietnam in Hong Kong at The rate of offtake of Vietnamese the end of September 1980. refugees from Hong Kong by overseas countries of resettlement is the lowest for any country in South East Asia.
Also held in
Hong Kong are numbers of ethnic Chinese who originally sought refuge from Vietnam by resettling in China but subsequently have
About 8,500 came to Hong Kong made their way to Hong Kong.
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between the latter part of 1979 and the middle of 1980, and
they are gradually being returned to their places of resettlement.
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