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Of interest to readers and policymakers in countries that receive migrants through family reunion and manpower admission schemes from low-income countries and strive to assimilate them into their communities, this book presents a case study of the integration of migrants from Mainland China in Hong Kong. It shows that early optimism of quick economic assimilation has given way to a more realistic view of a long, arduous process extending to the second generation. While the case of Hong Kong is unique in a number of ways, the book serves as a useful policy reference for other countries that attempt to balance the intake of migrants for family reunion with the admission of high-quality migrants who possess skills in demand in the economy.

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Professor Pak-Wai Liu received his MA and PhD in Economics from Stanford University. He then joined the Department of Economics at the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 1976, before becoming Professor of Economics in 1994. He is currently Research Professor and Professor Emeritus at this institution, and his research interests span the fields of applied theory, labour economics and development economics.Professor Kit-Chun Lam received her MA and PhD in Economics from Harvard University. She is currently Professor Emeritus of the Department of Economics at Hong Kong Baptist University, having previously served as a Visiting Scholar at Harvard University and Princeton Theological Seminary and as an Honorary Senior Research Fellow of the Hong Kong Institute of Economics and Business Strategy at the University of Hong Kong. Her research interests are immigration, economic ethics and business ethics.

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