"Boat person" is both nondescript and guileless; it's also a euphemism.
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So far, no "boat person" detained on Manus or Nauru has been resettled in Australia.
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Hoàng Thị Thân (born in 1944 at Phú Cường (Thủ Dâù Một, South Viêt Nam)) is the first woman to graduate from the Department of Geological Engineering of Laval University (Quebec, Canada), the first female Vietnamese geological engineer and archeologist. She is also a boat person.
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Pipo was born in Hue, Vietnam in 1962. As a teenager, he competed on the Vietnamese national table tennis team. In 1975 at age 13, he left Vietnam for the United States as a boat person. Pipo graduated from Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota in 1983 with a BA in Economics after which he moved to New York.
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427 From these interviews, she directed The Story of Woo Viet (1981) starring Chow Yun-fat as Woo Viet, a Vietnamese boat person in Hong Kong, and Boat People. The People's Republic of China, just ending a war with Vietnam, gave Hui permission to film on Hainan Island.Berry p. 429 Boat People was the first Hong Kong movie filmed in Communist China.
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The broadcast was first made on 16 August 1988, which announced the government's decision to implement a screening policy that would separate refugees from non-refugees (or boat people with economic motivations). The statement was read by Chung Wai-ming, a well-known RTHK radio personality. The Vietnamese portion of the broadcast was read by a Vietnamese boat person who was about to be repatriated.
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Anh Dao Traxel (Vietnamese spelling: Anh Đào Traxel, born Dương Anh Đào; born 22 August 1957 in Saigon, South Vietnam) is the foster daughter of the late French President Jacques Chirac (1932–2019) and his wife Bernadette (born 1933). She was a boat-person refugee, and met Jacques Chirac at Roissy Airport in 1979. He told her "Don’t cry, ma chérie. You are coming home with us" and took her home.
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The novel tells the tale of a woman, An Tinh Nguyen, born in Saigon in 1968 during the Tet Offensive who immigrates to Canada with her family as a child. The book switches between her childhood in Vietnam where she was born into a large and wealthy family, her time as a boat person when she left her country for a refugee camp in Malaysia, and her life as an early immigrant in Granby, Quebec. The story is told by a first-person narrative.
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Episode 1 : Same-Sex Marriage The road to acceptance has not been easy for the Australian gay community but despite strong opposition to their cause, gay Australians have fought for and won the same rights as everyone else, except for one... the right to get married. Featuring conservative Anglican minister David Ould from Macquarie Fields and atheist couple from Melbourne, Gregory Storer and Michael Barnett. Episode 2 : Detention Centres In the last twenty years sixty thousand ‘boat people’ have arrived in Australia. How we deal with them when they get here continues to polarize public opinion. Featuring Morteza, a 30-year-old, former ‘boat person’ who landed on Christmas Island after fleeing Iran and Jenni from Queensland who says they should not be allowed to stay in Australia.
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