boat-people

Français · Australie: Les boat-people, pions du jeu politique

Global Voices in English » Australia: Playing Political Bingo with Boat People 2009

I found out for myself a quarter century ago, as a young man running the UNHCR office (and the refugee camp that went with it) in Singapore at the peak of the Vietnamese boat-people crisis.

THE GOOD FOR SOMETHING U.N. 2007

The tales from the boat-people who traversed these waters - those that survived - are particularly harrowing.

Archive 2005-01-01 Zoe Brain 2005

He then remembered that some faecal coliforms, which were tired of swimming around, had asked him for a lift before entering the roughing filter He/lad agreed to give them a ride and they therefore started their journey through the filter like boat-people on the back of the clay particle.

8. Classification of roughing filters 1996

There they were last July in the offices of France-Soir for a round-table discussion, glaring at each other uncivilly from their respective worlds, only a few days after Sartre and Aron had managed to shake hands over the issue of the Vietnamese boat-people.

Paris: Moses and Polytheism Sheehan, Thomas 1980

I, too, feel compassion for refugees, whether they be Vietnamese boat-people, or Palestinians.

Israel and Dissidence Levine, Baruch A. 1978

I'll hide about, and mayhap somehow I might get a chance among the boat-people.

Us An Old Fashioned Story Mrs. Molesworth 1880

Mick'll not be likely to think of the canal, and Tim's been down to see if there was any one among the boat-people as would take you.

Us An Old Fashioned Story Mrs. Molesworth 1880

You can trust any of the boat-people -- they know me so well.

The Rajah of Dah George Manville Fenn 1870

At sundown the boat-people anchor their craft in rows to stakes, thus forming boat-terraces as it were.

Man on the Ocean A Book about Boats and Ships R. [Illustrator] Richardson 1859