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Foreign Workers Welcome, But No Permanent Residents, Please

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Philip Bowring
Nov 15, 2011
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East Asia’s economic growth has brought in its train large-scale migration of temporary workers from poorer to richer states.

The policies directed towards such migrants have varied from state to state, and these discrepancies have now been highlighted by a recent controversy in Hong Kong – the request by a handful of foreign domestic helpers to be grant…

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