Cause of the migration

In late 1978, Indo-China degraded into war between Vietnam and Kampuchea and China in December 1978, Vietnam attacked Kampuchea while in February 1979, Vietnam attacked Chinese forces in the north. These two conflicts produced a lot of refugees.

How they migrated

Those Vietnamese who took to the ocean in tiny overcrowded ships were dubbed the “boat people.” The survivors sometimes languished for years in refugee camps. Countries like Canada took in the luckier ones. The journey was very dangerous