Reluctant Exiles?: Migration from Hong Kong and the New Overseas Chinese

Skeldon, Ronald (Editor)

ISBN 10: 1563244314 / ISBN 13: 9781563244315

Published by M E Sharpe Inc, 1994

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380 pages. 9.50x6.50x1.25 inches. In Stock.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Reluctant Exiles?: Migration from Hong Kong and the New Overseas Chinese
• Publisher: M E Sharpe Inc
• Publication Date: 1994
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1563244314
• ISBN 13: 9781563244315
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Brand New
• Weight: 0.68 kilograms

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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.

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.