Hong Kong Migration Advisers
A 6 page research paper that offers a summation and analysis of an article on Hong Kong migration from 1994 and the role of migration advisers. In 1994, there were more than 100 companies in Hong Kong specializing in offering consulting services to potential migrants to other countries (Hardie, 1994). Migration in the 1980s and early 1990s was spurred as a direct consequence of fears generated by the impending retrocession of Hong Kong to China (Vickers and Kan, 2003). During this period, thousands of people, frequently professionals, migrated overseas, usually to Australia, Canada or New Zealand, in order to secure foreign nationality for themselves and their families (Vickers and Kan, 2003). By having a member of the family obtain foreign citizenship, a family was perceived as having a "bolt-hole abroad in the event of political or economic repression of the post-1997 (Chinese) regime" (Vickers and Kan, 2003, p. 179). In his detailed study, Hardie (1994) examines the role of the migrant adviser in the processes spurring the exodus from Hong Kong during this time. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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