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The picture above represents the journey of how Vietnamese refugees got to their refugee camps before they got accepted to migrate into the country.

The stick figures in the sea represent one of the hardships of leaving their home country to go to a new, unknown country. Those people represent the people who died while on their journey to a safe place.

 One personal example of how the Vietnamese people migrated to different countries was how my mother got to Canada and eventually the United States of America.

My mother was around eighteen years old at that time when she decided to leave the country to find a safer place to live. With her aunt and two of her cousins, she tried different ways to get out of the country. One was to give gold to someone they knew that lived close to the shore to ensure that they would be able to go on the boat; however, with overloading of people, the boat was docked there for 30 days. Within those 30 days, people began to starve as the supply of food was decreasing by the day. The people then began to be malnourished and in the end died before they got to go to another country. After a while, she finally got on a boat to go to the refugee camp at Bidong Island in Malaysia. An image of the refugee camp can be seen here:

Around that time many countries such as Canada, United States, France, and Australia. One refugee camp close by UCSD is Camp Pendleton. Although the camp did close by October 1975, the Vietnamese people who tried to escape Vietnam during the war did star at the camp. The country that accepted my mom was Canada, but before she got to Canada she got to meet her brother, my uncle, who also went by boat. He was supposed to arrive days earlier than my mother but his boat got lost at sea. My mother arrived in Canada by May 1980. She then came to California in 1987.