MAPS OF HISTORY · REFUGEE CRISES · MAPS BY YEAR · June 1979Uprooted: Refugees in Europe 1945–1960 and Indochina 1975–1990 · THE MAP IN JUN 1979
Map of refugees in Southeast Asia in June 1979
Boats pushed back to sea
Refugees in Southeast Asia in June 1979: Boats pushed back to sea. Since mid-1978, 4 territories changed status on this map: including Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia and 1 more.
JUN 1979 · UPROOTED: REFUGEES IN EUROPE 1945–1960 AND INDOCHINA 1975–1990 These maps are reconstructed from published sources · US Department of State: Indochina refugee crisis1979 · Cliopatria v0.2.1 historical polities · UNHCR: flight from Indochina · Natural Earth v5.1.2 country geography
Source details US Department of State: Indochina refugee crisis1979. Historical facts cited; no source artwork or text reproduced Cliopatria contributors / Seshat Global History Databank. CC BY 4.0 · Selected dated records; documented component selection, unions and shared-edge extraction. UNHCR: flight from Indochina. Historical facts cited; no source artwork or text reproduced Natural Earth contributors. Public domain · Full source components and holes retained; documented historical unions and repairs. Territories and displacement hatching are reconstructed from published source geometry. The hatched areas locate historical regions; ethnicity, displacement and control were not necessarily uniform at every point within them.
The layer records give the full source geometry and date choices. Arrows remain schematic routes, using the lesson’s existing volume categories.
The 1954 Vietnam line uses the nearest published regroupment polygons, from 1956. The Thai-Cambodian overlay is a 12 km study corridor around the actual boundary; markers identify individual camps separately.
proxy: Natural Earth v5.1.2 geographic reference · reconstruction: 1976–1991 · reconstruction: 1979–1990border-camp region
Layer records and reconstruction methods
What changes on the map Malaysia First asylum open → First asylum restricted Thailand First asylum open → First asylum restricted Indonesia First asylum open → First asylum restricted Philippines First asylum open → First asylum restricted
On the ground The Thai–Cambodian border strip contained refugee camps and resistance bases and saw fighting in 1979–91 The chapters of this moment
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