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Document #1349336
IRB – Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada (Author)
Information on the above-mentioned subject
could not be found among the sources consulted by the DIRB.
However, attached please find several documents from 1984 to 1986
that mention the penalties faced by returning Chinese citizens who
illegally left China for Hong Kong. Also attached is a January 1991
article by Susan Young entitled "Wealth but Not Security: Attitudes
Towards Private Business in China in the 1980s." This article may
be of interest.
This Response was prepared after
researching publicly accessible information currently available to
the DIRB within time constraints. This Response is not, and does
not purport to be, conclusive as to the merit of any particular
claim to refugee status or asylum. Please find below the list of
sources consulted in researching this Information Request.
Attachments
The Australian Journal of Chinese
Affairs [Canberra]. January 1991. No. 25. Susan Young. "Wealth
but Not Security: Attitudes Towards Private Business in China in
the 1980s," pp. 115-37.
Los Angeles Times. 10 November
1985. Adam Kelliher. "High-Tech Gurkhas Guard Hong Kong Border;
Special Devices Detect and Catch Illegal Chinese Immigrants to
British Colony." (NEXIS)
The New York Times. 8 December
1986. Nicholas D. Kristof. "Hong Kong Journal: Ensnared and
Returned: China's Migrant Young." (DIRB country file)
United Nations High Commissioner for
Refugees (UNHCR), Geneva. 16 February 1984. Telex to the UNHCR
branch office in Ottawa.
Sources Consulted
Amnesty International country file.
January 1993-present.
Amnesty International Report 1983,
1984. 1983, 1984.
The Australian Journal of Chinese
Affairs [Canberra]. January 1990-January 1995.
China Focus [Princeton]. January
1993-November 1995.
The China Journal [Canberra].
July 1995.
China Rights Forum [New York].
Spring 1993-Fall 1995.
Country Reports 1983, 1984. 1984,
1985.
DIRB country file. January 1983-December
1988, January 1993-Present.
FBIS Daily Reports. 2 January
1991-1 December 1995.
Refugees, Immigration and Asylum Section
(RIAS), Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Australia. June
1994. Country Profile: China.
On-line searches.
Oral sources.
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