Refugee crises · TURNING POINT ·
Vietnamese boat people in Hong Kong (1978–79)
On the Refugee crises map as “Hong Kong”
Dec 1978–1979 — The freighter Huey Fong arrives with more than 3,000 refugees in December; in 1979 about 68,700 boat people land in the colony, many of them Hoa from the north. Hong Kong kept its promise of first asylum longer than its neighbours.
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- Turning point
- Chapter
- Vietnamese boat people (chapter 9 of Refugee crises)
- Atlas
- Uprooted: Refugees in Europe 1945–1960 and Indochina 1975–1990
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