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Fig. 1.

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Association Clusters of the Waichows in Hong Kong, 1979,

C

D

E F

I

T

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formal relationship

association cluster

Walchow Clansmen General Association in Hong Kong B. Ten-Districts of Waichow Association in Hong Kong C. Walchow Union Sheung Shui Branch, Hong Kong

D: Walchow Un Long Residents Association Ltd.

E: Walchow Union Hong Kong Tai Po Branch, N.T.

F: Waichow Main Union Tsuen Wan Branch

G. Waichow Clansmen General Association (Hong Kong) Ltd., Peng Chau Branch

H: Walchow Clansmen General Association of Hong Kong, Lamma Island Branch

I: Ha Foon District Association

J: Lu Foon District Association

K: Loong Chuen Native Association

L: Tze Kam District Countrymen's Association Limited M: Hong Kong Residents of Pok Law District Association N: Ho Yuen Clansmen Association

ed, consider these associations as "gangplanks” which help rural immigrants across pitfalls in their transition to new urban ways of life. Nevertheless, emphases are different among various researches. Little (1974:89-90) and Banton (1968: XVI, 360), arguing from urbanization studies in West Africa, stressed the creation of voluntary associations by the natives anxious to learn the life pattern of the Europeans. Fallers (1967:12), however, focused his attention on the awkward position of the new immigrants - sandwiched between the rulers and the autochthonous. In his excellent introduction to Immigrants and Associations, he wrote:

Clearly, then, one reason why the immigrant trading community is so productive of associations is that, lacking satisfying and reliable moral ties with the indigenous local community, it must