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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 Evolution of Immigration Law

The Johnson Reed Act of 1924 says we don't want Southern Europeans because they're Catholic. And that migrates right into these communists after 1917 after the Russian Revolution. So not only does immigration law evolve as always a racialized, very often-agendered and sexed idea about who's acceptable,. But there's also almost from the get-go this kind of political legitimacy.

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