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The Indochinese refugees consisted of a number of different peoples, including the Vietnamese, the Sino-Vietnamese Hoa, Cambodians fleeing the Khmer Rouge and hunger, ethnic Laotians, Iu Mien, Hmong, other highland peoples of Laos, and Montagnard, the highland peoples of Vietnam. They fled to nearby countries to seek temporary asylum and most ...
This article uses the term "boat people" to apply only to those who fled Vietnam by sea. The number of boat people leaving Vietnam and arriving safely in another country totaled almost 800,000 between 1975 and 1995. Many of the refugees failed to survive the passage, facing danger from pirates, over-crowded boats, and storms.
Vietnam war refugees refers to people forced to flee from their countries and become refugees in relation to the Vietnam War. Refugees. Vietnamese boat people, refugees that fled Vietnam after the Vietnam War. Vietnam War resisters in Canada, American refugees who fled to Canada to avoid service in the Vietnam War.
These people have fled their country/territory of origin and registered with the UNHCR in these countries or territories. UNHCR registered refugees by country/territory of asylum between 2022 and 2010
Lisa Dam fled Vietnam in 1978 with 50 other people, only to find themselves lost in the South China Sea, adrift on a fishing boat. How a sailor reunited with the Vietnamese refugees he helped ...
'We have to give back,' the daughter of Vietnamese refugees in Washington state says of her community's efforts to help families that fled Afghanistan. Their families fled Vietnam. Now they're ...
The Indochina Migration and Refugee Assistance Act, passed on May 23, 1975, under President Gerald Ford, was a response to the Fall of Saigon and the end of the Vietnam War. Under this act, approximately 130,000 refugees from South Vietnam , Laos and Cambodia were allowed to enter the United States under a special status, and the act allotted ...
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