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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 History of Immigration in the United States

The origins of that really go back to anti-communism in immigration policy, which really interestingly is always used against people who are trying to organize for labor rights. So anyone who's not that says or chavas, communists, like anybody who says these people need certain basic rights can be deported as communists. And if we sort of jump ahead to the Cold War to let's say to the post 1945 period, you have this specter of Europe, specifically, and it radiates outward and more of an international focus. There's this crisis and the United Nations High Commission on Refugee Convenes, a convention in 1951. If you don't have your passport, says the UNHCR in

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