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In the early 90s many countries started opening up pathways for HK citizens fearing this - there was a lot of talk of "Brain Drain" in HK. Canada in particular
by johnzim 7y ago
In the early 90s many countries started opening up pathways for HK citizens fearing this - there was a lot of talk of "Brain Drain" in HK.
Canada in particular did a great job of encouraging emigration.
These days it's a little harder. The classic "HK passport" is the BNO - British Nationality Overseas which doesn't give you right of abode in the UK because racism.
Asylum is also extremely difficult to achieve - you'd have to have been already targeted and by that point there's already a risk of being disappeared extra-judicially.
- arcticbull 7y ago45% of Vancouver is of Asian descent, and 30% of Vancouver is Chinese, many of whom are HK expats. 500,000 folks of HK descent live in Canada (1.5% of Canada). There's another 300,000 Canadian passport holders living in HK. It'll be very interesting to see what happens over the next couple of years.
- ksec 7y agoI will need to fact check on this, I knew a lot of HK people went to Vancouver in pre 97, and that number you posted is quite staggering.
- arcticbull 7y agoSorry, I should have posted the reference material. - 500K Canadian Citizens in HK [1] - 300K of Hong Kong descent in Canada [2] (I may have reversed this in one of the two posts). - Ethnic breakdown of Vancouver [3] although I used the 2011 census data not the 2016 data reflected there, which explains the slight drift. [1] https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/unrest-in-hong-kong-fuels-speculation-of-spike-in-re-return-migration-to-canada https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/unrest-in-hong-kong-fue... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hong_Kong_Canadians https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hong_Kong_Canadians [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Metro_Vancouver https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Metro_Vancouve...
- paggle 7y agoCanada encouraged emigration to the point of completely fucking over Vancouver and Toronto housing markets.
- woranl 7y agoMoney laundering is the problem, not Hong Kong emigrants. Mainland China does not allow dual citizenship, this is why many Chinese living in Canada do not apply for Canadian citizenship, but instead stay as permanent resident or visa student to launder money. https://business.financialpost.com/real-estate/billions-in-dirty-cash-helped-fuel-vancouvers-housing-boom https://business.financialpost.com/real-estate/billions-in-d... https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/pro-china-demonstrator-wants-vancouverites-to-see-other-side-of-hong-kong-protests-1.5255527 https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/pro-china-de...
- tmeprieodj 7y agoCan confirm this from my friends in Vancouver and growing up there. Most Hong Kong people assimilate quite well, it’s new wave from mainland China that doesn’t. You can feel it in the atmosphere. Driving Ferrari’s everywhere and showing off. It’s not a good look for anyone.
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- AFascistWorld 7y agoThe tax from luxury cars they bought is the best thing they could do for Canada.
- hello_moto 7y agoCanadian govt (or BC) are not smart cats. Unfortunately. I'd personally make tons of policies to extract as much money possible from these type of immigrants tbh.