Reluctant Exiles?: Migration from Hong Kong and the New Overseas Chinese (Hong Kong Becoming China (Hardcover)) - Hardcover

Skeldon, Ronald

 
9781563244315: Reluctant Exiles?: Migration from Hong Kong and the New Overseas Chinese (Hong Kong Becoming China (Hardcover))
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ISBN 10: 1563244314 ISBN 13: 9781563244315
Publisher: Routledge, 1994

Synopsis

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.

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About the Author

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.

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Publisher
Routledge
Publication date
1994
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1563244314
ISBN 13 
9781563244315
Binding
Hardcover
Edition number
1
Number of pages
380

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