SOC101Y1 Lecture Notes - Vietnamese Boat People, Pakistani Canadians, Visible Minority
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Saigon during the war was seen as a rest station/ major base/commercial district = important. Final test will be on december 5 (that is a wednesday) so you need to reschedule netlab hours. Saigon capital city of south vietnam (but this was taken over by the northern vietnam) Video: the saddest day april 30, 1975 the fall of saigon. 1975: the fall of the saigon (capital of the south vietnam captured by northern vietnam) Panic efforts of local residents to leave the country ( by sea, land, and air) Majority was by sea as the northern viet took over the airport and on top of that no countries were willing to fly planes into a war zone area. Refugee wave (resulted in the greatest exodus within short period of time) Two large immigration waves of vietnamese into canada (accepted refugees and immigrants)
