boat people

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Definition von boat people im Englisch Englisch wörterbuch

plural form of boat person

{i} 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

Boat people are people who escape from their country in small boats to travel to another country in the hope that they will be able to live there.. 50,000 Vietnamese boat people. 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). people who escape from bad conditions in their country in small boats refugees. Refugees fleeing by boat. The term originally referred to the thousands of Vietnamese who fled their country by sea following the collapse of the South Vietnamese government in 1975. Crowded into small vessels, they were prey to pirates, and many suffered dehydration, starvation, and death by drowning. The term was later applied to waves of refugees who attempted to reach the U.S. by boat from Cuba and Haiti and also to Afghan and other refugees seeking asylum in Australia

Silbentrennung

boat peo·ple

Türkische aussprache

bōt pipıl

Aussprache

/ˈbōt ˈpēpəl/ /ˈboʊt ˈpiːpəl/

Etymologie

[ 'bOt ] (noun.) before 12th century. Middle English boot, from Old English bAt; akin to Old Norse beit boat.