General Information

Author/Creator

Loescher, Gil, 1945-2020.

Language

English.

Published

New York : Free Press ; London : Collier Macmillan, c1986.

Physical Description

xviii, 346 p. ; 25 cm.

Contributors

Contributor

Scanlan, John A. (John Allen), 1944-

Subjects

Subject

Refugees > Government policy > United States > History > 20th century.

Refugees > United States.

United States > Emigration and immigration.

Bibliographic Information

Responsibility

Gil Loescher, John A. Scanlan.

Note

Includes bibliography (p. 273-331) and index (p. 333-346).

Content

Introduction: Refugees, politics, and humanity -- 1. Jews, displaced persons, and the First Refugee Act -- 2. The politics of escape -- 3. Finding room for the freedom fighters -- 4. Asylum and emergence of a double standard -- 5. Congress and the choice of victims -- 6. Flight from Saigon -- 7. Providing safe harbor for the boat people -- 8. Meeting the crisis in Cambodia -- 9. Carter and the politics of mass asylum -- 10. Reagan and the closing door -- 11. Calculated kindness.

Library Special Collection

HU OSA 300 - RFE/RL collection

ISBN

0029273404

Holdings

Item Type	Current Location	Collection	Call Number	Volume Info	Shelving Location	Public Note
Book	OSA Archivum Library	General collection	325/.21/0973 LOE		OSA Repository	-

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