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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.
UNHCR registered refugees by country/territory of asylum between 2022 and 2010 Country/territory of asylum Refugees per 1,000 inhabitants in mid-2015 [1] 2022 [2] 2019 [3] mid-2016 [4]
While most refugees were resettled to other countries within five years, others languished in these camps for over a decade. In the 1990s, refugees who could not find asylum were deported back to Vietnam. Communities of Vietnamese refugees arrived in the US, Canada, Australia, France, West Germany, and the UK.
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. Vietnam War resisters in Sweden, American refugees who fled to Sweden to avoid service in the Vietnam War.
He also pointed to Syria where after 13 years of conflict, 5.6 million Syrian refugees remain in neighboring countries including Lebanon and Jordan which also host Palestinian refugees.
The narrative begins in 1978, three years after the last American helicopter fled Saigon; the communists are hunting among their own countrymen for traitors, causing a mass exodus, a story line ...
The list below includes the number of refugees per event with at least 1 million individuals included. ... Vietnam War: 3.0 million: Mainland Southeast Asia: 1975 ...