Boat people (disambiguation)
Appearance
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Boat people are the Vietnamese who fled South Vietnam.
Boat people may also refer to:
People
[edit]- Boat people (Hong Kong) or Tanka people
- Boat people, Rohingya people fleeing Burma by sea during the 2015 refugee crisis
- Người Tàu, an alternative name for Hoa people
- Balseros, the name given to boat people who fled Cuba in self-constructed or precarious vessels.
- Haitian boat people, refugees who ride boats from Haiti to the United States or the Bahamas.
Other uses
[edit]- Boat People (film), a 1982 Hong Kong film about Vietnamese refugees in the territory
- The Boat People (band), an indie pop band from Australia
See also
[edit]- Fisherman
- Sailor
- Sea Gypsies (disambiguation), various ethnicities who live largely or principally on boats