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Episode 185: Nativism in Media (Part II) - The Artificial Cold War Distinction Between 'Migrants' and 'Refugees'

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The Distinction Between Migrant and Refugee

The distinction between refugee and migrant is historically very ideologically and racially loaded. The artificial classifications of immigrants we know today originated in the first decades of the 20th century following the First World War. By then, the United States had already enacted many right-wing nativist policies restricting immigration.

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