Vietnamese Boat People

By Nathan Tirpak

&

Mitch Hornick

Who were the Boat People?

• Boat people were immigrants from Vietnam, who emigrate in numbers in boats.

• They were fleeing Vietnam because of the control it was under after the war.

• They were also Chinese people that lived in Vietnam, that thought the new government was targeting them.

How did they arrive?

• The boat people used many different ways to leave their country.

• Many families got split up because they had to separate to travel.

• They got rescued by the U.S Navy, and other sea passers.

What was the trip like?

• The trip was very scary and frustrating for the boat people.

• During their trip they got robbed, raped, and killed by the pirates.

• Some of their boats broke, halfway through the trip.

• They were finally rescued and brought to safety.

What did they use for boats?

• They were old, and crudely made sometimes, making them unseaworthy and unsafe.

• They made the boats out of anything they could find, such as wood, and tents.

• The boats usually sunk, or got destroyed by the extreme weather, and huge waves.

Why were they leaving Vietnam?

• They were leaving Vietnam during the war.

• They left because they did not like the government they were under.

• A lot of Vietnamese people were getting killed such as children, and females.

• They left on a voyage looking to find a new life, and start over.

What were their expectations?

• They first wanted to be successful of getting away from Vietnam.

• Second they wanted to make it to a new country to find prosperity.

• When they got to a new country they hoped to get new jobs, and be able to have a better life.

What did they do when they arrived?

• Well they didn’t actually arrive how they wanted to.

• Halfway through their trips their boats got destroyed and they had to be rescued by the U.S. Navy.

• They did domestic work to try to start a new life.

How were they rescued?

• They were mostly rescued by the U.S. Navy.

• They were also rescued by other sailors, such as fishermen that passed by them.

• When the U.S. Navy rescued the boat people they usually rescued with submarine boats.

Where are they now?

• At first they had to go back to Vietnam because other countries could not afford them.

• About 2,500 of them were granted the right of adobe by the Hong Kong government in 2002.

• In 2005, the remaining refugees in the Philippines were granted asylum in Canada, Norway, an the United States.

Work cited

• www.paabo.ca/uirala/index.html

• www.sourcewatch.org

• www.asian-nation.org

• www.boatpeople.org