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Author_Ronald Skeldon
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Business Immigration Program
Business Migration Program
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China
Chinatown Community
Chinatown Politics
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Chinese Canadians
Chinese Community
Chinese Government
communities
comparative immigration policy
diaspora adaptation strategies
Draws Back
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ethnic community networks
Good Life
Grace Church
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Hong Kong migration case studies
immigrants
international mobility patterns
IRCA
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Local Chinese
Local Chinese Community
Mainland China
migrants
migration
non-English Speaking Background Groups
North American Free Trade Agreement
overseas
Overseas Chinese
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Permanent Residents
Reluctant Exiles
Retail Apparel Stores
skilled migrant integration
Sojourner Mentality
transnational migration studies
West Germany
York's Chinatown
Young Men
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- ISBN 9781563244322
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 30 Sep 1994
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Inc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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This work presents an assessment of the migration from Hong Kong that has occurred since the second half of the 1980s. This pronounced outflow of highly educated people (a "brain drain") is having a profound impact on destination areas, as well as on Hong Kong itself.
WANG GUNGWU is Vice-Chancellor of the University of Hong Kong. He taught at the University of Malaya in Singapore, and later at Kuala Lumpur, and was for many years at the Research School of Pacific Studies at the Australian National University, of which he remains an Emeritus Professor. RONALD SKELDON is a Reader in the Department of Geography at the University of Hong Kong. A graduate of the Universities of Glasgow and Toronto, he has carried out fieldwork in Peru and Papua New Guinea and has worked for the United Nations in Bangkok, in several countries in South and Southeast Asia, and in the Pacific.
