Hardship in Hong Kong for China's migrants

A new study shows poverty affects more than a third of families that move from mainland China to Hong Kong. The situation is even worse for single parents without any family or support. Al Jazeera's Stephanie Scawen reports.

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[zambimaru]

And the last thing Hong Kong needs is more people.

[MsColdCanada]

People all around the world should probably also stop mass migrating. The planet already has refugees and diasporas in every corner. Too many displaced people and too many others who choose to displace themselves. People think moving will make life better when it hardly ever does as the cause of the migrations are never addressed. Problems need solved not run away from.

[Alex Lee]

PEOPLE WHO MOVE TO CHINA IS NOT CALLED FUCKING MIGRANTS. HONG KONG IS PART OF CHINA. THE ONLY DIFFERENCE HONG KONG IS MORE INDUSTRIALIZED.

[MsColdCanada]

Since you want it to be a race thing, with an us versus them type of mentality, perhaps you think the best thing would be if all cultures and types of people should stop controlling their populations and raise the largest families possible in a bid for planetary control? Great idea... until we all choke to death on our own filth, like the problem Beijing has been having this week.

[MsColdCanada]

Application of religion, particularly in non-secular societies, is an obstacle yes. However that might be attributable to the authoritarian leadership who micro-manages the lives of their citizens more so than the actual religion. I can't vouch for Islam but let's look at Italy. More than 85% of Italians consider themselves Catholic and their birth rate is well below the replacement rate also. So secularism in the state is a much larger factor than what the Vatican tweets when it comes to fact.

[MsColdCanada]

Job supply is a problem yes. It has to balance out with population but for some reason joblessness is becoming a huge problem in many countries. That leads to economic refugees/migrants. Some migration is good and helpful but mass displacement is hard on the society absorbing them and hard on the society that loses the best of their next generation.

[IKNFLY666]

Job supply I meant to say.

[IKNFLY666]

I'm sure you know that using condom is strictly prohibited by Vetican, and they try to impose their dogma to other Roman catholic countries, such as Philippines, Latin Americans, Africans, thus explain why these highly religiousized societies have high birth rate, obstructing economic development because job demands cannot keep up with population growth, thus emigrating to other countries. If you want to solve problems, then you need to identify the problem.

[IKNFLY666]

Countries that have high birth rate is hardly secular, and these countries are the source of mass emigration and refugees, such as Islamic countries, African countries etc, SE Asia e.g. Philippines, etc. it's always the church or islamic councils obstructing the population planning of the government, or else they threaten the govt with mass mobilization. so the problem is religion for sure.

[MsColdCanada]

I don't buy that it does come down to religion. Nearly 80% of Canadians identify as some version of Christian and the birth rate is not even at replacement value. In a secular country personal religious beliefs do not obstruct society in that way.

[IKNFLY666]

And the first solution is population control by distributing free condoms and sex education, then there won't be superfluous people wanting to move out from the first place. But somehow, religion is the major obstacle to that solution, so the problem comes down to religion.