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- Publisher
- Wiley
- Copyright
- Copyright © 1997 Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company
- ISSN
- 1077-3495
- eISSN
- 1099-1220
- DOI
- 10.1002/(SICI)1099-1220(199703)3:1<15::AID-IJPG58>3.0.CO;2-V
- pmid
- 12321147
- Publisher site
- See Article on Publisher Site
Abstract
The humanitarian policy that the Canadian government implemented in response to the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown changed a migration system primarily based on personal networks into a brain drain. Post‐Tiananmen mainland Chinese immigrants (MCIs) were better educated than those arriving in Canada previously. Among the post‐Tiananmen MCIs, those who landed under the policy were better educated than those landing in other categories. The analysis suggests that post‐Tiananmen MCIs represented a brain‐drain rather than a refugee flow, that the humanitarian policy implicitly contained ideological and human capital concerns in addition to humanitarian concerns, and that Canada benefited from the policy by obtaining human capital as well as satisfying its humanitarian obligations and ideological aspirations. © 1997 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Journal
International Journal of Population Geography – Wiley
Published: Mar 1, 1997
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