With the images of Vietnam still fresh on their minds, Americans in the mid-1970s were confronted with horrifying news footage of half-starved Vietnamese refugees reaching the shores of Hong Kong, Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia, and the Philippines on...

Among the many human tragedies of the conflict in Vietnam was the remarkable odyssey of the Vietnamese "boat people." Throughout the early months of 1975 there was mounting anxiety in South Vietnam over the possible collapse of the...

Boat people is a term (usually) referring to illegal immigrants or asylum seekers who arrive en masse in old or crudely-made boats. The term came into common use during the late 1970s with the mass departure of Vietnamese refugees from...

At least 56 African migrants died this month trying to make the perilous journey across the Gulf of Aden to Yemen, the U.N. refugee agency said Friday.Ron Redmond, a spokesman for the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees, said hundreds of Somali, Ethiopian and Sudanese have...

As the talk show host chatted with the young filmmaker about his next project, Truc Ho, founder of the television network on which the program aired, started to pay closer attention.But then you do tend to take notice when a stranger describes the story of...

A boatload of 59 dazed and exhausted African men arrived Tuesday in the Canary Islands, the latest wave in a constant flood of desperate migrants seeking a better life in Europe.The boat containing the Africans, including four minors, arrived at Las Galletas beach in the...