Language and cultural differences confronting refugees are compounded by an administrative limbo and lack of support in their new home<\/p>
When Kenneth Ip and Natalie Wong left Hong Kong in early 2021, they carried little with them except for some luggage and a fake invitation to a Taiwan wedding. In 2019 they\u2019d been arrested at Polytech university,<\/a> where they had been part of the Protect Our Children deescalation organisation, a group of older Hongkongers who acted as physical buffers between the young pro-democracy protesters and the riot police.<\/p> They escaped being charged, Ip tells the Guardian, but police still considered them suspected rioters and they no longer felt safe in Hong Kong. So they fled for Taiwan, where a government was offering to help them<\/a>.<\/p> Continue reading...<\/a>\n