refugees

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• 1/5/20
  

  A Personal History of Vietnam War Refugee Policies

  by Ron Steinman

  The story of how a Vietnamese family came to America after the Vientam War and started a new life. 

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• 11/3/19
  

  Refugees in an Age of Immigration Restrictionism

  by Erik Christiansen

  Each new stage in the Trump administration’s handling of refugees and immigrants invites comparisons to past policies. Usually that means talking about the Obama years, or maybe the 1986 immigration reforms.  But it’s worth looking back further to the restrictionist era of the 1920s and 30s.  

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  9/29/19
  

  Even as President Trump slams the door on refugees, there is reason for hope

  by Julia G. Young

  More than a century after the first World Day of Migrants and Refugees, communities continue to resist nativism and fight for immigrant rights

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• SOURCE: Contingent Magazine
  8/23/19
  

  No Refuge: Frances Perkins, the Labor Department, and Immigration

  by Rebecca Brenner Graham

  When Congress gave the Secretary of Labor discretion over any immigrant “likely to become a public charge,” they weren’t expecting someone like Frances Perkins.

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• 8/4/19
  

  FDR's Token Jewish Refugee Shelter

  by Rafael Medoff

  Granting temporary refuge was a way of addressing the life-and-death crisis that Europe’s Jews faced, without incurring the wrath of those who opposed permanent immigration.

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• SOURCE: Washington Examiner
  7/9/19
  

  Roosevelt versus the refugees: One FDR policy that Bernie Sanders never mentions

  by Rafael Medoff

  Sanders favors a much more liberal U.S. immigration policy. Not Roosevelt. In fact, FDR’s immigration policy was so strict that if Sanders’s father, Eli, had not arrived from Poland before Roosevelt became president, he probably would not have been admitted.

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• 5/12/19
  

  Carolyn Forché: Bearing Witness to the Wounds of History

  by Robin Lindley

  A Conversation with Renowned Poet and Human Rights Activist Carolyn Forché on Her New Memoir, Mass Trauma, History, and the Plight of Refugees Today.

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• SOURCE: NPR
  3/4/19
  

  40 Years After The Vietnam War, Some Refugees Face Deportation Under Trump

  U.S. officials have been working behind the scenes to convince the Vietnamese government to repatriate more than 7,000 Vietnamese immigrants with criminal convictions.

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• 1/27/19
  

  The Refugee Camps of Twentieth-Century Britain—Historian Jordanna Bailkin Discusses Her Groundbreaking New Book "Unsettled"

  by Robin Lindley

  The policies giving rise to these refugee camps were critical in shaping today’s multicultural Britain and also served as antecedents to the treatment of immigrants and refugees now.

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• SOURCE: History Channel
  1/4/19
  

  How the Dust Bowl Made Americans Refugees in Their Own Country

  As they traveled west from the drought-ravaged Midwest, American-born migrants were viewed as disease-ridden intruders who would sponge off the government.

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• 12/30/2018
  

  A Century Ago We Came Up with an Imaginative Way of Dealing with Refugees

  by Michael Goodyear

  Why can’t we do it again?

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• SOURCE: The Weekly Standard
  12-10-2018
  

  Why Did Gallup Omit Its Own Holocaust Poll?

  by Rafael Medoff

  The Holocaust Museum has an exhibit about American attitudes toward Jewish refugees. And it's missing the most important part.

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• 11/18/18
  

  Is Thanksgiving Thanksgiving If We Are No Longer Welcoming Refugees?

  by William Lambers

  What we’ve lost by being mean.

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  11-8-18
  

  Would George Washington embrace the migrant caravan?

  Our first president offered asylum as one of America’s assets. Repeatedly.

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• SOURCE: The Globe and Mail
  11-6-18
  

  Justin Trudeau apology to Canadian Jews for turning away the desperate refugees of the St. Louis in 1939

  Hundreds died in Nazi death camps.

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  11-5-18
  

  I was a refugee. I know Trump is wrong.

  by Max Boot

  Historian Max Boot cites facts and his own experience in repudiating Trump’s view of refugees.

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  10-30-18
  

  How a business-first foreign policy triggered the migration caravans

  by Arica L. Coleman

  Two centuries of U.S. intervention have destabilized Central America.

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• SOURCE: Perspectives on History
  10-29-18
  

  Myths and Realities of the US Refugee Policy

  by Dane Kennedy

  Modern American refugee policy has its origins in the aftermath of World War II.

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• 8/5/18
  

  This Is What It’s Like When You Have an Administration that Wants to Welcome Refugees

  by Joel K. Goldstein

  The story of the Carter administration’s response to the Indochinese refugee crisis forty years ago.

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• SOURCE: Smithsonian
  6-28-18 (accessed)
  

  This French Town Has Welcomed Refugees for 400 Years

  For centuries, the people of the mountain village of Chambon-sur-Lignon have opened their arms to the world’s displaced.