TNAG-1427-FCO40-1910-Vietnamese-refugees-in-Hong-Kong-general-1986 — Page 62

The Jubilee camp has been difficult to run in the

past, mainly because the rate of resettlement from it has

been very low. A11 the refugees living there are ethnic

Vietname se from South Vietnam, usually of rural and poor

educational background; and

and many of their cases have been

looked at by a t least one

rejected.

Since December 1984

resettlement country and

however, UNHCR has been

conducting a special campaign to increase resettlement

from Jubilee, with the aim of substantially reducing the

This has had some success, but the

camp population.

population still stands at 2,200.

On the general question of resettlement from Hong

resettlement.

Kong, Ms Goodrum is

UK has agreed to accept some 500 Vietnamese refugees for

This decision was announced in the White

Paper which the Government published on 26 September in

response to the recent report of the Home Affairs Sub-

Committee on Race Relations and Immigration (SCORRI),

"Refugees and Asylum with Special Reference to the

correct in her understanding that the

Vietnamese"

•

Most of the refugees will come from

camps

in Hong Kong (a few will come from other places of first

asylum in South East Asia). They all have relatives in

the UK, but their cases would normally have fallen

outside the Home Office's immigration criteria for family

Altogether some 19,000 Indo-Chinese

reunion cases.

refugees, including over 12,000 from Hong Kong, have been

resettled in the UK since 1975.

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