Breakdown among the non-refoulement claimants; 831 male and 221 female [1][2] The total population includes migrants from Southern Africa, who number around 200 residents and consist mainly of Africans of European origin.
[3] Africans began settling in Hong Kong in the 1990s, arrivals typically being businessmen coming to Hong Kong to engage in trading activities, or to make deals with Mainland China through a middleman.
Many stayed, resulting in the majority of people of African descent currently residing in Hong Kong.
About half of the Africans in Hong Kong live in Yuen Long,[2] with another concentration in Chungking Mansions in Kowloon's Tsim Sha Tsui district.
[4][5] Historically, many Africans in Hong Kong were traders, dealing in mobile phones and electronic devices for export markets at shops in Chungking Mansions, but this is quickly changing as Africans choose Guangzhou's Xiaobei for this business.