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Figure 3.2
Remembering Tiananmen Square: The Goddess of Democracy memorial in Vancouver,
a replica of the ten metre statue assembled by Chinese students in Tiananmen Square in 1989
landings exceeded the dwindling arrivals from Hong Kong (Figure 3.1).
Migrant arrivals from South Korea have risen, like Taiwan, from a small
base at the beginning of the 1980s, but have grown steadily so that by 2001
they exceeded the total from Hong Kong and Taiwan combined. Focussing
our attention upon the Vancouver metropolitan area, arrivals from Hong
Kong and Taiwan, the two principal sending countries of business immi-
grants, appear in Figure 3.3. The powerful migration wave from 1987-97
for Hong Kong arrivals is apparent. Taiwanese numbers are lower overall,
except at the end of the period when their rate of decline is gentler than the
case of Hong Kong. Excluding secondary migration, which would lift both
totals appreciably, close to 112,000 Hong Kong landings occurred and
some 58,000 from Taiwan. Of particular interest is the very high share of
business immigrants among these totals, almost a third of arrivals from
Hong Kong, and almost a half of those from Taiwan; in contrast business
