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...

Haitian boat people are refugees from Haiti who flee the country by boat, usually to South Florida and sometimes the Bahamas. The first reports of refugees...

Look up boat people or boat person in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Boat people are the Vietnamese who fled South Vietnam. Boat people may also refer...

The Tankas or boat people are a sinicised ethnic group in Southern China who traditionally lived on junks in coastal parts of Guangdong, Guangxi, Fujian...

Boat People (Chinese: 投奔怒海; pinyin: Tóubēn Nù Hǎi; Cantonese Yale: Tau ban no hoi; lit. 'Into the Raging Sea') is a Hong Kong film directed by Ann Hui...

Cuban boat people mainly refers to refugees who flee Cuba by boat and ship to the United States. Migrants from Cuba to the United States since the time...

Aranmula Boat Race. Thousands of people gather on the banks of the river Pampa to watch the snake boat races. In 2019 Fifty Two snake boats or Palliyodams...

Boat People SOS (BPSOS) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization devoted to Vietnamese-American civic and political activism. It is headquartered in Falls...

confiscated by the Communists after 1975, and many fled the country as boat people due to persecution by the newly established Communist government. Hoa...

Mistikôsiwak (Wooden Boat People) is a 2019 pair monumental historical paintings ("Welcoming the Newcomers" and "Resurgence of the People") by the Canadian...

Tei boat people refers to those who lived in the Yau Ma Tei Typhoon Shelter, Kowloon, Hong Kong from around 1916 to 1990. Yau Ma Tei boat people mainly...

currently used to detain people who are under Australia's policy of mandatory immigration detention. Asylum seekers detected in boats in Australian waters...

The Boat People were an Australian four-piece indie pop band. The Brisbane based group consists of James O'Brien, Robin Waters, Charles Dugan and Tony...

dubbed as 'boat people' by international media, to Southeast Asian countries including Malaysia, Indonesia and Thailand by rickety boats via the waters...

Presently, the majority of the boat people do not permanently live in their boats. Rather, most simply use the boat to fish during the day. Most of the...

United States in what became known as the "boat people crisis". This wave was characterized by mainly rural people who lacked the education or wealth of the...

apparently the name. Tanka boat, a boat of the kind in which these people live. 1839 Chinese Repository 7 506 The small boats of Tanka women are never without...

Germany consists of refugees from the Vietnam War. The first of the boat people who fled the country after the liberation of Saigon via the South China...

Indochina refugee crisis continued into the 21st century. The last of the boat people were repatriated from Malaysia in 2005. Thailand deported 4,000 Hmong...

seafaring people, living off the sea by trading and subsistence fishing. The boat-dwelling Sama-Bajau see themselves as non-aggressive people.[citation...

suffering of the boat people: So many boat people were dying in the ocean, and Singapore had a very harsh policy on the boat people… The policy of Singapore...

drummers to practice. For races, there are 18-20 people in a standard boat, and 8-10 in a small boat, not including the steersperson (sweep) and the drummer...

U-boats were naval submarines operated by Germany, particularly in the First and Second World Wars. The term is an anglicized version of the German word...

A narrowboat is a particular type of canal boat, built to fit the narrow locks of the United Kingdom. The UK's canal system provided a nationwide transport...

Waroa, Guarauno, Guarao, and Warrau. The term Warao translates as "the boat people", after the Warao's lifelong and intimate connection to the water. Most...

Boating is the leisurely activity of travelling by boat, or the recreational use of a boat whether powerboats, sailboats, or man-powered vessels (such...

The Boat Race is an annual set of rowing races between the Cambridge University Boat Club and the Oxford University Boat Club, traditionally rowed between...

contrast to the poor "boat people" who fled southeast Asia (most notably Vietnam) in the 1970s. One of the destinations for the yacht people was Vancouver, British...

The phrase fresh off the boat (FOB), off the boat (OTB), are sometimes-derogatory terms used to describe immigrants who have arrived from a foreign nation...

impact on Canadian life. After the war, tens of thousands of Vietnamese boat people were also admitted and became a unique part of Canadian life. During...