boat people

boat people

English

Noun

boat people

1. (historical) refugees fleeing by sea, particularly those fleeing from South Vietnam during the 1970s and '80s.
   • 2010, Mondale, Walter; David Hage, The Good Fight: A Life in Liberal Politics‎, Scribner, →ISBN, OCLC 555638158, OL 26279042M, page 184e:

     Indochinese refugees, known throughout the world as the “boat people,” were subject to horrific suffering and dangers when the Vietnamese government began expelling them after the fall of Saigon.

2. An ethnic group that principally lives on fishing and houseboats, particularly the Tanka or Dan people of East Asia.
3. plural of boat person

Translations

refugees fleeing by sea

Chinese: Mandarin: 船民 (zh) (chuánmín) Finnish: venepakolaiset pl German: Bootsflüchtlinge (de) m pl, Boatpeople (de) m pl Japanese: please add this translation if you can Russian: «лю́ди с ло́дки» m pl (“ljúdi s lódki”) Spanish: please add this translation if you can Vietnamese: người thuyền nhân

ethnic group that principally lives on fishing and houseboats

Chinese: Mandarin: 蜑家 (zh), 疍家 (dànjiā) Finnish: venekansa German: Schiffsvolk n, Bootmenschen m pl Japanese: please add this translation if you can Russian: please add this translation if you can Spanish: please add this translation if you can Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can