Refugee crises · TURNING POINT ·
New Economic Zones (1976–80)
1976–80 — The government sends city dwellers, many from Saigon, to clear land in the Central Highlands and the south. Many lacked tools, seed and farming skills; some drifted back to the cities, and for others the zones were a step toward the boats.
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- Turning point
- Chapter
- Re-education camps and Hoa exodus (chapter 8 of Refugee crises)
- Atlas
- Uprooted: Refugees in Europe 1945–1960 and Indochina 1975–1990
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