refugees

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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.

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• SOURCE: Forward
  1-24-17
  

  Anti-Semitism Spikes in Poland — Stoked by Populist Surge Against Refugees

  A new national study conducted by the Center for Research on Prejudice at the University of Warsaw finds a significant increase in negative attitudes toward Jews since 2014.

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• 10-30-16
  

  When the World Looked Away as Jews Died in Europe

  by Richard Rashke

  The appalling indifference to Jewish refugees in World War II.

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• SOURCE: Times Union (Albany, NY)
  8-6-16
  

  Echoes of history in U.S. refugee policy

  by Bruce W. Dearstyne

  Ambivalence about helping people in danger resembles earlier era.

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• SOURCE: OUPblog
  12-18-15
  

  The fate of foreign refugees, past and present

  by Caroline Shaw

  To allow Islamophobia to redefine asylum as dependent on religious confession would be to return to the world of rampant anti-Catholicism of early modern Britain.

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• 9-30-13
  

  Syrian Refugees Should Stay in Their Own Cultural Zone

  by Daniel Pipes

  Saudi Arabia is a wealthy country, with vast tracts of land and part of the Arab world. Why shouldn't Syrian refugees go there instead of Germany?

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• The Chaotic and Bloody Aftermath of WWII in Europe

  by Robin Lindley

  On May 8, 1945, Germany surrendered to the Allies and the Second World War in Europe ended officially. But in reality, the war continued in various guises for several years.British author and historian Keith Lowe details the cruel aftermath of the war in his acclaimed book Savage Continent: Europe in the Aftermath of World War II (St. Martin’s Press). His  careful study of the postwar years in Europe reveals widespread anarchy, famine, crime, pestilence and violent conflict, with millions of uprooted people wandering the ruined lands. Often, Mr. Lowe writes, the bloody conflicts were a continuation of the war that had left 30 million dead and destroyed the infrastructure of most of the warring nations, including political institutions, law enforcement, transportation, media and social services.