Mai Han is an outsider in Hong Kong, where many locals resent people from mainland China. She and her daughter Alice live off Alice’s welfare, $520 a month, because Han is ineligible for working rights.
Mai Han does household chores as her daughter, Alice, studies in their one-room flat in Kowloon, Hong Kong.
Many Hong Kong locals oppose the one-way permit system, claiming mainlanders are overcrowding housing and welfare systems; one lawmaker recently pushed to slash the number of permits in half. Han, 45, has been hoping for a one-way permit since 2006, when she got married and left Hainan, China. But Han says her ex-husband — with whom she’s cut off contact — was unreliable and would disappear, leaving her alone with the baby to face debt collectors. “Strange men come to my house to ask for money…. You’re just afraid,” Han said.
Beijing decides who gets the permits, a fact that rankles many in Hong Kong, a special administrative region with some autonomy from China. “The number of, I wouldn’t call that low quality, but substandard people coming down — they cannot really make Hong Kong excel,” Chan said.
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