Boat People A Refugee Crisis: Seeking Asylum

Vietnamese Families Dept: Boat People: A Refugee Crisis 1975 -1980, according to CBC. But the process of accepting refugees has also stirred controversy. In the 1930s, Canada accepted a modest 4,000 Jewish refugees seeking asylum amid begrudging public acceptance and canada has long been seen as a desirable haven to those seeking asylum, providing sanctuary to American slaves covertly travelling the Underground Railroad in the mid-1800s to Displaced Persons arriving from Europe following the close of the Second World War to Vietnamese families arriving on the shores of Canada in the late 1970s. Archives In the years following the Vietnam War, over one million refugees fled the war-ravaged countries of Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos. As reported in the news.
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