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Refugee Girl, Hong Kong, China, 1989

"Peering through the wire-mesh wall of her cubicle, a young Vietnamese whose parents hold refugee status awaits passage to a free life in the West. Meanwhile thousands of other Vietnamese youngsters languish in the hellish limbo of detention centers with their parents until their status is resolved or they are repatriated."

—From "Hong Kong's Boat People," February 1991, National Geographic magazine

Photograph by Jodi Cobb