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 humanitarian crisis was at its highest in the late 1970s and early 1980s, but continued well into the early 1990s.

2024年12月25日 · 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 Vietnamese government in 1975. Crowded into small vessels, they were prey to pirates, and many suffered dehydration, starvation, and death by drowning.

2019年10月6日 · The 1975 reunification of Vietnam established a brutally oppressive regime, resulting in a mass exodus of refugees now known as Vietnamese Boat People.

More than 3 million people fled Communist-controlled Vietnam and neighboring Laos and Cambodia after the Vietnam War ended in 1975. More than a million Southerners, including about 560,000 "boat people," fled the country soon after the communist takeover, fearing persecution and seizure of their land and businesses.

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. Escaping by boat, many found freedom in foreign land, many were captured and brutally punished, and many did not survive the journey.

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 refugees either to allow them to resettle in the country or to have them processed for …

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. These Vietnamese migrants were named “boat people” because of their method of escape.

Known as the "boat people," many Vietnamese sought to escape the tumult, communism, and violence left behind from the Vietnam War. Surrounded on all sides, they were left with one real option—flee via boat on the South China Sea.

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 and the drastic regime change of communism (SCR-162 7 Aug. 2018).

Vietnamese Boat People (VBP) is honored to present “Our Journeys: 50 Years After the Fall,” a compelling traveling exhibition debuting in New York City in 2025. This exhibition commemorates the 50th anniversary of the Fall of Saigon, a pivotal moment that marked the end of the war and the beginning of harrowing journeys to freedom for ...