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Boat people logo #10101) Certain refugees
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boat people logo #21003refugees fleeing by boat. The term originally referred to the thousands of Vietnamese who fled their country by sea following the collapse of the ... [1 related articles]
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boat people logo #20688Illegal emigrants travelling by sea, especially those Vietnamese who left their country after the takeover of South Vietnam in 1975 by North Vietnam. In 1979, almost 69,000 boat people landed in...
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boat people logo #21221Illegal emigrants travelling by sea, especially those Vietnamese who left their country after the takeover of South Vietnam in 1975 by North Vietnam. In 1979, almost 69,000 boat people landed in Hong Kong in a single year. By 1988, it was decided to treat all boat people as illegal immigrants unless they could prove they qualified for refugee statu...
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boat people logo #21199refugees who have fled a country by boat, usually without sufficient provisions, navigational aids, or a set destination, esp. those who left Indochina by sea as a result of the fall of South Vietnam in 1975.
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