Vietnamese boat people (Vietnamese: Thuyền nhân Việt Nam) were refugees who fled Vietnam by boat and ship following the end of the Vietnam War in 1975. This migration and …

Feb 20, 2025 · Boat people, refugees fleeing by boat. The term originally referred to the thousands of Vietnamese who fled their country by sea following the collapse of the South …

Oct 6, 2019 · The 1975 reunification of Vietnam established a brutally oppressive regime, resulting in a mass exodus of refugees now known as Vietnamese Boat People.

Between 1975 to 1992, almost two million Vietnamese risked their lives to flee oppression and hardship after the Vietnam War, in one of the largest mass exoduses in modern history. …

Vietnamese boat people After the fall of Saigon in 1975, more than a million people left Vietnam, about 5 percent of South Vietnam’s population, most of them by boat. Many sailed long …

The arrival of the so-called “boat people” in the late 1970s in Japan was a historic episode in the country’s refugee policy. It was the first time that Japan accepted a significant number of …

As a result, an estimated two million Vietnamese risked their lives in crowded boats and fled across the South China Sea to countries throughout the region. These refugees, known as …

The "Vietnamese Boat People" monument, located in Westminster, California, recognizing the Vietnamese refugees that fled their homeland in hopes of survival due to the effects of war …

By 1978, more than 500,000 Vietnamese tried to leave their country in small, unseaworthy boats. Some boats were so small they carried a single family. Others held hundreds of refugees. …

Mar 27, 2015 · Despite the end of the Vietnam War, tragedy for the people of Vietnam continued into 1978-79. The term ‘Boat People’ not only applies to the refugees who fled Vietnam but …