The ‘boat people’: Are they refugees?¹

Lecturer in the Faculty of Law, University of Papua New Guinea.

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Lecturer in the Faculty of Law, University of Papua New Guinea.

This paper is a revised version of part of an earlier work: The Boat People and International Law. (Research Paper No. 14, Centre for the Study of Australian‐Asian Relations. Griffith University, 1981). 1 am grateful to the Centre for granting me permission to publish part of that work in this form. I am also grateful to William Maley for reading through this article and making critical comments on it. All the shortcomings of the paper however remain my own responsibility.