Refugee crises · TURNING POINT ·
Galang refugee camp (1979–96)
On the Refugee crises map as “Galang”
1979–96 — Indonesia gives an island south of Singapore for a UNHCR processing camp, the kind of centre the Geneva meeting promised. Well over 100,000 Indochinese passed through it on their way to new countries; its grounds are now a memorial park.
- When
- Type
- Turning point
- Chapter
- 1979 Geneva conference on refugees (chapter 10 of Refugee crises)
- Atlas
- Uprooted: Refugees in Europe 1945–1960 and Indochina 1975–1990
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