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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Reluctant exiles? Armonk, N.Y. : M.E. Sharpe, c1994 (OCoLC)609235035 Online version: Reluctant exiles? Armonk, N.Y. : M.E. Sharpe, c1994 (OCoLC)624768580 |
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| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Ronald Skeldon |
| ISBN: | 1563244314 9781563244315 1563244322 9781563244322 |
| OCLC Number: | 30029643 |
| Notes: | "An East Gate book." |
| Description: | xix, 359 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | Setting the scene. Reluctant exiles or bold pioneers : an introduction to migration from Hong Kong ; The historical and geographical context. Hong Kong in an international migration system / Ronald Skeldon -- Recruitment and release : migration advisers and the creation of exile / Edward T.L. Hardie -- Overseas Chinese adaptive organizations, past and present / Edgar Wickberg -- Canada. Hong Kong migration to Canada : the background / Graham E. Johnson and Diana Lary. Business immigration to Canada : deception and exploitation / Josephine Smart -- Hong Kong immigration and the Chinese community in Vancouver / Graham E. Johnson -- Hong Kong immigrants in Toronto / Diana Lary and Bernard Luk -- Searching for a safe haven : the migration and settlement of Hong Kong Chinese immigrants in Toronto / Lawrence Lam -- Australasia. The migration and settlement of Hong Kong Chinese in Australia / Kee Pookong and Ronald Skeldon. The Hong Kong Chinese in Sydney / Christine Inglis and Chung-tong Wu -- The Hong Kong Chinese in Auckland / Elsie S. Ho and Ruth Farmer -- United States of America. Hong Kong immigrants in San Francisco / Bernard P. Wong -- New York is not Hong Kong : the little Hong Kong that never was / Peter Kwong -- Hong Kong Chinese in Hawaii : community building and coping strategies / Richard Chabot, Oi Man Chan, and Alvin Y. So -- A European and an Asian destination. Branches all over : the Hong Kong Chinese in the United Kingdom / Hugh D.R. Baker. The ethnicity paradox : Hong Kong immigrants in Singapore / Chan Kwok Bun -- Conclusion. Migration from Hong Kong : current trends and future agendas / Ronald Skeldon. |
| Series Title: | Hong Kong becoming China. |
| Responsibility: | Ronald Skeldon, editor ; with a foreword by Wang Gungwu. |
Abstract:
Hong Kong Becoming China: the transition to 1997.
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