MAPS OF HISTORY · REFUGEE CRISES · MAPS BY YEAR · Mid-1978Uprooted: Refugees in Europe 1945–1960 and Indochina 1975–1990 · THE MAP IN MID-1978
Map of refugees in Southeast Asia in mid-1978
The Hoa expelled; boats multiply
Refugees in Southeast Asia in mid-1978: The Hoa expelled; boats multiply. Since December 1975, 3 territories changed status on this map: Indonesia, Philippines and Singapore.
MID-1978 · 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
Layer records and reconstruction methods
What changes on the map Indonesia — → First asylum open Philippines Western bloc or democracy → First asylum open Singapore Western bloc or democracy → First asylum restricted
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