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Boat people — is a term that usually refers to illegal immigrants or asylum seekers who emigrate en masse in boats that are sometimes old and crudely made rendering them unseaworthy and unsafe. The term came into common use during the late 1970s with the mass… … Wikipedia
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boat people — n. refugees who flee their country by sea; Indochinese refugees who fled Indochina by sea in small boats following the Vietnam War in 1975; ethnic Chinese people who fled Vietnam in the same manner after the Chinese invaded Vietnam in 1979 … English contemporary dictionary
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boatpeople — boat people pl.n. Refugees, usually political ones, who attempt to flee from their native country to other countries by boat: “hundreds of thousands of boat people descending on the nation, arms outstretched in need” (Jerry Adler). * * * … Universalium
Disasters — ▪ 2009 Introduction Aviation January 23, Poland. A Spanish built CASA transport plane carrying members of the Polish air force home from a conference on flight safety in Warsaw crashes near the town of Miroslawiec; all 20 aboard are killed … Universalium
Refugee — According to the 1951 Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees, a refugee is a person who owing to a well founded fear of being persecuted for reasons of race, religion, nationality, membership of a particular social group, or political… … Wikipedia
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