Migration: Rethinking border and boundary

Susanne Y.P. Choi; Eric Fong

doi:10.4324/9781315466699

Migration: Rethinking border and boundary

Susanne Y.P. Choi
, Eric Fong

Chinese University of Hong Kong

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Abstract

At the stroke of midnight on the 30th of June 1997, in a convention centre built for the occasion, Prince Charles, the next king of England, symbolically handed the sovereignty of Hong Kong to Jiang Zemin, the President of the People’s Republic of China… several hundred thousand persons descended on Hong Kong – former civil servants, past residents, tourists – all wanting to be there to witness “history being made”.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Migration in Post-Colonial Hong Kong
Publisher	Taylor and Francis
Pages	1-12
Number of pages	12
ISBN (Electronic)	9781315466682
ISBN (Print)	9781138205505
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315466699
State	Published - 1 Jan 2017
Externally published	Yes

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