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The date, 16 June 1988, from which those who arrived from Vietnam in small boats were no longer given automatic refugee status was of major significance: for the asylum-seekers, for Hong Kong, for the region and for the traditional international response to those abandoning their home country in haste and seeking a new life — after a perilous journey — in a foreign land.
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Davis, L. (1991). Screening and Repatriation. In: Hong Kong and the Asylum-Seekers from Vietnam. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-21701-4_2
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