DSR 11C
The open
camps are run by the local office
of the
High
Commissioner for Refugees (UNCHR)
The
United Nations
with the assistance of various voluntary agencies.
run by the Hong Kong Government, in
closed camps are
cooperation with UNHCR and voluntary agencies. In all
the camps, refugees are provided with food, medical,
welfare, educational, training and sports facilities.
The Jubilee Camp,
which Ms Good rum says she
visited, is an Open camp located in Sham Shui Po, which
is in the main urban area of the Kowloon Peninsula.
was
It
originally opened as a transit camp in 1979 when the
influx of refugees into Hong Kong was at its peak. When
the number of arrivals fell it was converted
reception centre for newly arriving refugees. However in
in to
a
mid-1982
delays
in
antagonisms between
resettlement
and
historical
Northern and Southern Vietnamese led
to disorder in the
only remaining
Tak.
transit camp, a t Kai
Jubilee was reopened at very short
notice as
a
second transit centre, in order to relieve
pressure upon Kai Tak.
s ome
of the
By European standards Jubilee is indeed crowded, as
are all the camps; unfortunately
this is also true of
many other areas of Hong Kong,
which has a population
density 20 times that of the UK.
In general the space
allocated
to refugee families is similar to that
allocated to squatter families resited to
temporary
housing areas in Hong Kong.
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