SYDNEY -- In 2019, Hong Kong native Emily traveled 4,500 miles to begin her university studies in Australia with dreams of building a career back home after graduating. What happened next changed all that.

While Australia has become home for tens of thousands of former Hong Kong residents in the wake of the city's draconian new security law, campaigners say Canberra should be doing more to recruit Hong Kong talent and accelerate asylum approvals. © Illustration by Yoshiko Kawano
Amid Canberra-Beijing thaw, asylum seekers left in limbo as program for workers, graduates grows