refugees

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• SOURCE: National History Center and Woodrow Wilson Center
  12/3/2020
  

  Washington History Seminar: Mira Siegelberg on "Statelessness: A Modern History" (Monday, Dec. 7)

  The Washington History Seminar and the Woodrow Wilson Center host Mira Siegelberg for a discussion of her book "Statelessness: A Modern History" on Monday, Dec. 7 at 4:00 PM.

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• SOURCE: Africa is a Country
  11/3/2020
  

  Africa's Forgotten Refugee Convention

  by Marcia C. Schenck

  The Organization of African Unity proposed its own refugee convention in 1969, reframing the issue as one of solidarity rather than crisis, and pointing the way to a more humane and positive model of thinking about the problems of displacement and statelessness.

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• SOURCE: TomDispatch
  11/12/2020
  

  A Convergence of Calamities: The War Refugee Crisis will be Dwarfed by Climate

  by Nick Turse

  The crisis of people displaced by war is set to be compounded by the accelerating problems of desertification, drought, flooding and famine brought on by climate change. 

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• SOURCE: The New Republic
  11/10/2020
  

  How the World Gave Up on the Stateless (Review)

  Over 10 million people are stateless today, and governments seem hell-bent on increasing their numbers. A new book examines how the rise of modern states created the dire circumstance of statelessness. 

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• SOURCE: Forward
  11/2/2020
  

  I’m a Professor of Human Rights. My Students Taught Me the Danger Posed by Trump

  by Susan Banki

  The past four years have taught us that the descent into despotic practices can be steep and quick. I’d like to be able to show my students that a restoration of human rights and democracy can be equally rapid.

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• SOURCE: The New Yorker
  11/2/2020
  

  Searching for Refuge After the Second World War

  New books by David Nasaw and Paul Betts examine the uncertain fate of Jewish Holocaust survivors in postwar Europe, the problem of massive human displacement, and the tension between interpreting Europe's refugee problem in universal terms or focusing on the specific consequences of anti-Jewish policies and prejudice. 

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• SOURCE: Made by History at The Washington Post
  10/29/2020
  

  The History of Hmong Americans Explains why they Might Decide the Election

  by Melissa Borja

  Hmong refugees were resettled in the United States after participating as US allies in military operations in Laos. American policy of dispersing refugees in small groups away from coastal areas created Hmong communities in Wisconsin, Michigan and Minnesota. 

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• 10/18/2020
  

  Fraught Family Reunification After the Holocaust

  by Rebecca Clifford

  "A tenth of Europe's pre-war population of Jewish children survived the Holocaust. Many sought and achieved reunification with their families, but reunification did not usually end the trauma endured by this "fragment of an entire generation."

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• SOURCE: Made By History at The Washington Post
  

  Trump’s Attacks on Refugees Expose the Inadequacy of the Current System

  by Carl J. Bon Tempo

  The Refugee Act of 1980 is the law allowing the President to set an annual ceiling for refugee admissions to the United States, and is in urgent need of revision by Congress. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  9/11/2020
  

  The Secret History of America’s Only WWII Refugee Camp

  The response to the settlement of fewer than 1,000 refugees in New York State roused fierce opposition and often ethnic prejudice as the United States was fighting fascism in Europe. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  7/28/2020
  

  Refugee Resettlement Is Close to Collapse. That Was Trump’s Plan.

  In the 40 years since the program was established, no refugee who has entered the country through the resettlement program has killed anyone in a terrorist attack in the United States. 

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• 7/12/2020
  

  "The Day I Start Being Free": Detained Migrants Struggle for Human Rights

  by Jana Lipman

  The experiences of Vietnamese refugees in the 1990s, who experienced detention and a bureaucratic process exposing them to dangerous repatriation, are a precedent for the treatment of asylum-seekers in contemporary America.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  4/11/2020
  

  Ruth B. Mandel, a Voice for Women in Politics, Dies at 81

  Her experience fleeing the Nazis on the doomed “Voyage of the Damned” informed her faith in democracy as head of the Eagleton Institute of Politics.

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• SOURCE: Jewish News of Northern California
  2/26/2020
  

  This Historian Draws Lessons About Family Separation at U.S.-Mexico Border from Kindertransport Artifacts

  Craig-Norton’s findings offer parallels to the migrant child-parent separation issues of today and provide valuable lessons.

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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.