Refugee Challenge in Post-Cold War America

Zusatztext This book deftly explains how domestic politics, economic circumstances, and national security concerns have shaped what the United States has done-and not done-in the face of multiple refugee crises in the two decades after the end of the Cold War. With this masterful and elegant account, the first history to untangle post-Cold War U.S. refugee policies, Garcia demonstrates again why she is one of our most important scholars of immigration and refugees. Informationen zum Autor María Cristina García is the Howard A. Newman Professor of American Studies in the Department of History at Cornell University. She also holds a joint appointment in the Latino Studies Program. She has served as President of the Immigration and Ethnic History Society. Her books include Havana USA: Cuban Exiles and Cuban Americans in South Florida and Seeking Refuge: Central American Migration to Mexico, the United States, and Canada, and several other publications on immigration and refugee history. Klappentext The Refugee Challenge in Post-Cold War America examines the geopolitical and domestic interests that have shaped US refugee and asylum policy since 1989. In the post-Cold War era, policymakers consider a wider range of populations as potentially eligible for refuge: victims of civil unrest, trafficking, and gender and sexuality-based discrimination. Zusammenfassung The Refugee Challenge in Post-Cold War America examines the geopolitical and domestic interests that have shaped US refugee and asylum policy since 1989. In the post-Cold War era, policymakers consider a wider range of populations as potentially eligible for refuge: victims of civil unrest, trafficking, and gender and sexuality-based discrimination. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction Chapter One: Now that the Cold War is over, who is a refugee? Chapter Two: US Refugee Policy in the 'Age of Genocide' Chapter Three: Refuge in the National Security State Chapter Four: The New Asylum Seekers Epilogue Bibliography ...

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• Authors: Maria (Howard A. Newman Professor of Ameri Garcia, Maria (Howard A. Newman Professor of American Studies and History Garcia, Maria Cristina Garcia, María Cristina García, Garcia Maria
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.10.2017
• EAN: 9780190655303
• ISBN: 978-0-19-065530-3
• No. of pages: 360
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 241 mm x 32 mm
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political system; USA, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Freedom, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & Immigration, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights, POLITICAL SCIENCE / American Government / National, Migration, immigration & emigration, United States of America, USA, Migration, immigration and emigration, Central / national / federal government policies, Political control and freedoms, Political Control & Freedoms, Refugees and political asylum, Refugees & Political Asylum, Central government policies