ABSTRACT

This title was first published in 2000:  An ethnographic inquiry into the socio-cultural dynamics of the Vietnamese asylum seeker detention centres in Hong Kong during the period of 1988-1995. It deals essentially with the British asylum policy towards Vietnamese refugees and its outcome in Hong Kong. Based on the author's first hand experience of working in refugee camps, this book argues that the administrators managed to solve the crisis by perpetuating horrendous human rights violations and subsequent ethnocide of the asylum seekers trapped in the detention centres.

chapter 1|16 pages

Introduction

chapter 3|16 pages

Options and Choices

chapter 5|14 pages

The Power of the Host

chapter 6|52 pages

The Structure of Powerlessness

chapter 7|28 pages

Violence in the Camps

chapter 8|14 pages

The Silence of the Power Brokers