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This publication reveals and brings awareness of the secret deportation of Chinese seamen in Liverpool in 1945. During the second world war it was estimated that around 20,000 Chinese seamen had been recruited to join the war efforts. Manny of them had then settled in Liverpool and started families but in 1945 the Home Office discreetly deported around
2,000 Chinese seamen who then had to leave their families behind. 

The pages of this publication are laser cut to show the disappearance of these men, and the text consists of extracts from the memory police by Yoko Ogawa.













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