Vietnam: A group of refugee 'boat people' escaping from communist rule in the South China Sea. Photo by Lt. Carl R. Begy (public domain), 15 May 1984. 35 Vietnamese refugees rescued by the command ship USS Blue Ridge (LCC-19) northeast of Cam Ranh Bay, after spending eight days at sea. Boat people is a term that usually refers to refugees or asylum seekers who emigrate in numbers in boats that are sometimes old and crudely made. The term came into common use during the late 1970s with the mass departure of Vietnamese refugees from Communist-controlled Vietnam, following the Vietnam War.

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