'Stateless' boy heads back to mainland China with 'nowhere to go'
‘No one wants him,’ says grandmother of undocumented 12-year-old as they cross border with nowhere to go after agreeing to leave HK
The fate of a 12-year-old who led an undocumented life for nine years in Hong Kong was in limbo last night after his grandmother had him voluntarily deported and took him back to the mainland.
But "family members" who were supposed to be waiting for Siu Yau-wai on the other side of the border did not show up when they arrived in Shenzhen. He and his grandmother appeared helpless and lost, chased by a media pack from Hong Kong.
After wandering about near the Shenzhen immigration checkpoint with her grandson, the grandmother, Chow Siu-shuen, 67, said they had nowhere to go and no one they could trust.
Asked if any of Yau-wai's relatives or parents were coming to pick him up, Chow said: "No one wants him. We don't have a plan as to what we should do."
The grandmother murmured repeatedly that she had no choice but to take him to an orphanage.
The sky is wide and the world is big. There is no place for [Siu Yau-wai]
"He is just an orphan. I don't know how we got into this situation. He doesn't have a family. If he does, we wouldn't have got to this stage," Chow said.