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1. From 1997, the Hong Kong Government has increased the immigration quota from mainland China to Hong Kong 150 heads per day.
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2. While the migration policy facilitates the reunion of Hong Kong people with spouse and children living in China, it is disappointing that the Hong Kong Government does not take positive measure to help the new immigrants to assimilate into society.
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3. It is easy in a city where many people, despite having mainland roots, look down on new arrivals for allegedly relying on social security and snatching jobs from them.
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4. New immigrants from mainland China in Hong Kong systematically face discrimination with abuse based on their nationality, class and gender.
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5. Women and children, who comprise the majority of the new immigrant population, bear the brunt of Hong Kong's discriminatory policies.
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6. New immigrants face discrimination when trying to find a home.
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7. If one applies for public housing, for instance, the existing residence rule requires half of one's household to have lived in Hong Kong a minimum of seven years by the time of allocation.
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8. Since most of the new immigrant families are poor, they can only afford to seek accommodation in caged homes, cubicles and rooftop huts.
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9. Indeed, the living environment of the new immigrants are very undesirable.
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10. New immigrants are also discriminated against in the area of access to social security.
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11. Another severe problem that new immigrant children encounter is finding a place in school.
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12. These children have been rejected by schools repeatedly because of the discriminatory attitude of the schools and the lack of any central assessment of the child's academic ability.
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13. Newly arrived schoolchildren recount pathetic examples of the bigotry they encounter at school.
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14. The Hong Kong government needs to publicly acknowledge that racial discrimination in Hong Kong is a serious issue that requires and sustained government commitment to eradicate.
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15. The government should create more effective public education strategies and programmes to promote racial harmony and combat racial discrimination, particularly targeting the civil service, education system and the general public.
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16. The Hong Kong Government should stop all forms of discrimination against the new immigrant families in access to public housing and social security payment.
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17. The Hong Kong Education Department should arrange school placements to all young new immigrants.
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18. The Education Department should establish a special committee to study and develop programmes to accommodate and address special educational needs of the young immigrants.
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19. The new immigrants encounter rudeness and contempt frequently, particularly in their dealings with Police, Immigration and Labour officials.
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20. Workers are afraid that once they complain they may lose their job.
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21. The government also needs to set up laws to protect migrant workers. especially the domestic workers, from being discriminated and exploited, and inform the workers of their rights actively.
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22. We should help prepare mainlanders for settlement in Hong Kong.
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23. Some centres introduce Hong Kong's ways of life to mainland immigrants and facilitate settling into a new place by offering counselling services and training courses, such as English courses for children, classes on full Chinese character writing, and vocational training for adults.
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24. "The course has laid a good foundation for my English and boosted my confidence, I came out third in this term, and have achieved satisfactory results in English in the term examintaion", said a 10-year-old mainlander.
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25. It is important for new arrivals to settle in Hong Kong well as this is vital to the establishment of a harmonious community, and good for the territory's productivity.
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GLOSSARY - NEW IMMIGRANTS FROM MAINLAND CHINA

positive measures I

assimilate in society ĤJ|

snatching jobs umJv

bear the brunt 

caged homes Ţ

pathetic i

bigotry 

eradicate M

accommodate and address tXκ

contempt 

being exploited Qd

counselling services ɪA

vocational training ¾~Vm

lay a good foundation n¦
