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

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For over a century, US policymakers and media have distinguished between supposedly different types of immigrants. There are deserving immigrants who are upwardly mobile and law-abiding and undeserving immigrants who are tax dodging gang members. The plight of certain immigrants is instrumentalized and prioritized over others. Depending on their proximity to contemporary notions of whiteness,. Their ability to create cheap labor and their utility to combating the spread of dangerous left-wing ideologies like anarchism and socialism.

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