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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 United States' Negative Rights Focus on the 1951 UN Refugee Convention

The 1951 UN Refugee Convention emerged as a global response to the horrors of the Holocaust. The U.S. would shape its own notions of a refugee through a series of laws passed throughout the 1950s that reflected an even more extreme example of this negative rights focus. In 1952 McCarran-Walter Act, for example, permitted the exclusion and deportation of immigrants suspected of being communist. A year later, with the refugee relief act of 1953, the U.S., explicitly defined the term refugee as someone seeking to settle in a non-communist country because of persecution.

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