Reluctant Exiles?: Migration from Hong Kong and the New Overseas Chinese
- ISBN-10
- 1315483114
- ISBN-13
- 9781315483115
- Category
- Political Science
- Pages
- 380
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2016-09-16
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Author
- Ronald Skeldon
Description
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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Other editions
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- 1994-01-01
- 359 pages
- Paperback
- Hong Kong University Press
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- 1994
- 388 pages
- Ebook
- M.E. Sharpe
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