Refugee crises · TURNING POINT ·
Whitehead Detention Centre (1989–97)
1989–97 — Hong Kong holds “screened-out” Vietnamese, those judged not to be refugees, in a fenced camp at Ma On Shan. Riots, hunger strikes and the dawn deportation flight of 12 December 1989 made it the symbol of the end of automatic asylum.
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- Turning point
- Chapter
- Comprehensive Plan of Action (chapter 11 of Refugee crises)
- Atlas
- Uprooted: Refugees in Europe 1945–1960 and Indochina 1975–1990
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