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SOURCE: The Conversation
4/28/2022
Race and Religion Have Always Helped Determine Who Gets Refuge in the US
by Laura E. Alexander, Jane Hong, Karen Hooge Michalka and Luis E. Romero
While Ukrainians fleeing war are deserving of aid from the United States, the treatment of both Haitian and Syrian refugees shows that the asylum process is far from equitable.
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SOURCE: The Journal
3/16/2022
St. Patrick's Story Should Make Us Consider How Ireland Treats Refugees
by Elizabeth Boyle
Both the legacy of St. Patrick and attention to a new wave of Ukrainian refugees should make the Republic of Ireland reconsider how it welcomes refugees from around the world.
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SOURCE: TomDispatch
3/3/2022
War Torn: Confronting the Problems of the Nationless
by Nick Turse
Those displaced by war, persecution, and economic desperation constitute more than a billion people. The "nationless" are the third-largest nation on Earth, and their ranks will only grow.
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SOURCE: Globe and Mail
2/24/2022
Kyiv History Professor Discusses Invasion While Fleeing to Poland
Olgah Martynyuk of Kyiv Polytechnic Institute spoke to journalists while preparing to leave the country by train to Poland, saying Ukrainians are determined to defend their democracy.
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SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
2/14/2022
Today's Asylum Seekers Carry on the Freedom Struggle of Enslaved Americans
by Sean Gallagher
Moving across the nation's boundaries was integral to the efforts of enslaved people to secure freedom; migrants today carry the legacy of that struggle, despite the cruelty of American immigration policy.
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SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
1/5/2022
The US Has Long Exploited the Legally Ambiguous Status of Guantanamo Bay
by Jana Lipman
The use of the naval base at Guantanamo bay for the detention of both suspected terrorists and refugees and migrants reflects the place's status as outside both Cuban and U.S. law. Since the end of the Spanish-American war, Cuban workers have understood the threat of abuse this status enables.
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SOURCE: Washington Post
12/13/2021
Americans Have been Forgetting Afghanistan for 20 Years. I Didn't Have That Luxury
by Ali A. Olomi
"Every Afghan American I know has lost a family member or friend. The war became part of who we were and even shaped our career trajectories. Afghan friends became immigration attorneys and activists. I became a historian."
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SOURCE: Boston Review
10/15/2021
Guantanamo's Other History
by Jeffrey S. Kahn
Reports of a bid for migrant detention contractors based at Guantanamo including speakers of Haitian Creole fed suspicion of a new connection of the military and immigration enforcement. Where Haitian refugees are concerned, the Guantanamo connection is nothing new.
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SOURCE: New York Times
10/4/2021
What America Owes Haitian Asylum Seekers
by Michael Posner
"The plight of the Haitians has been further complicated by decades of misrule, corruption and brutality by a series of Haitian governments that received steady U.S. financial and political support despite egregious records on human rights."
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SOURCE: The New Yorker
9/24/2021
The Latest Episode in the History of American Mistreatment of Haitian Migrants
by Edwidge Danticat
Novelist Edwidge Danticat explains the lengthy history of mistreatment of Haitian migrants by American authorities.
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9/5/2021
Resettling Refugees is Harder than You Think – A Personal History
by Ron Steinman
Experience shows that resettling refugees isn't easy. But with respect for common humanity and dedication, it's possible.
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SOURCE: History.com
9/1/2021
Vietnam's Postwar Refugee Crisis
“The United States doesn’t take enough into account how refugee migration and displacement are a part of all of our foreign policy interventions,” says historian Phuong T. Nguyen. “We need to be prepared to handle the humanitarian crisis that inevitably follows.”
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SOURCE: Dissent
8/25/2021
70 Years after the UN Refugee Convention, the US Needs to Commit to Helping Displaced People
by Linda K. Kerber
The UN Refugee Convention does not impose any real obligations on any nation to offer asylum. The United States must lead the way in recognition of the deeply interconnected world created in large part by American power.
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SOURCE: New York Times
8/19/2021
I Can’t Forget the Lessons of Vietnam. Neither Should You
by Viet Thanh Nguyen
For Afghan civilians, the war hasn't ended, and won't end for many years. The stories of Vietnamese refugees should inform American policy to aid Afghans seeking safety.
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SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
8/22/2021
Nativism Has Thwarted American Refugee Resettlement Before
by E. Kyle Romero
Political hostility toward the Bolshevik revolution and anti-Asian racism were among the factors that prevented the resettlement of World War I refugees in the United States, leaving their care to Eurpoean nations wracked by war.
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SOURCE: MSNBC
8/17/2021
MSNBC's Hayes Brown: Vietnam Withdrawal Shows US Needs to Take Care of Afghan Refugees
The program to bring Vietnamese refugees to America after 1975 was unpopular when it passed. It was still right, argues Hayes Brown.
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SOURCE: Jewish Currents
5/11/2021
Teshuvah: A Jewish Case for Palestinian Refugee Return
by Peter Beinart
Peter Beinart argues that the history of the Jewish people and the events of 1948 compel Israeli political leaders and American and world Jewish organizations to recognize a right of return for displaced Palestinians as part of a resolution to the current crisis in East Jerusalem.
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SOURCE: New York Times
4/26/2021
My Grandparents’ Immigration Lies Shaped My Father’s View of Justice
by Daniela Gerson
"My father knew all too well what happens when legal pathways do not exist for people to enter this country: They find alternative ways in, just as his own family had."
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SOURCE: My Jewish Learning
2/15/2021
Jewish Refugee Scholars at Black Colleges
The work of European Jewish academics at Historically Black Colleges in the United States is an underrecognized part of both Black and Jewish American history; many prominent African Americans were students of refugee professors.
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2/14/2021
Immigrant Families are the Second Casualty of War
by Elliott Young
If truth is the first casualty in war, immigrants follow as a close second. During the first and second world wars, tens of thousands of immigrants in the United States were locked up in prisons as part of a geopolitical game beyond their control.
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