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have faced social, political and economic difficulty in
accepting people of very different race, culture and
language.
Years spent under alien political indoctrin-
ation have also given cause for suspicion on security
grounds. Restricted availability of land and competition
for employment in still-developing economies have
compounded the problems posed. The 1979 Geneva
Conference agreed that the countries of first asylum in
the region should not be expected to bear either the
costs of the influx or the burdens of settlement of the
migrants. Promises of funds and of resettlement places
were made, mostly by the US and other developed
countries. Continued domestic political and economic
pressures on Indochina coupled with institutionalised
avenues to ultimate resettlement abroad, particularly in
the developed West, have continued to stimulate depart-
ures, illegal and legal, at a rate of about 50,000 a
year.
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3.
Three solutions to the problems posed by this exodus
of refugees have so far been adopted:
(i) Settlement in the country of refuge. This is
mainly confined to the 260,000 Vietnamese of
Chinese origin who have been accepted for
settlement in China. This settlement has proved
not without difficulty for both sides. Elsewhere
in the region the difficulties of absorbing large,
highly differentiated refugee populations has been
considered impossible. There is some evidence even
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