Migration Crises and Interest of a State. American Refugee Assistance Acts During the Cold War

• Authors: Mazurkiewicz Anna
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The article examines the link between the admission of refugees to the United States and the country’s foreign policy interest during the Cold War. The author analyses the post-war American refugee assistance acts and immigration laws to reveal U.S. policy choices made between safeguarding country’s security during the Cold War to taking political advantage of the refugee arrivals. The factors that provided for the refugees’ entry to the U.S. during the Cold War were determined by foreign policy concerns and the decisions related to the refugee crises were the domain of the executive up until 1980s. Given the Cold War context, most of the refugee crises occurring behind the Iron Curtain in Europe benefited U.S. psychological warfare programs, while Asian and Latin American refugees, often a consequence of direct (at times covert) U.S. political-military-economic involvement, put the U.S. on the defensive.

Keywords

EN

REFUGEE; QUOTA SYSTEM; COLD WAR; MIGRATION; DISPLACED PERSONS; BOAT PEOPLE; RESETTLEMENT; ANTI-COMMUNISM

• Publisher: Wydział Studiów Międzynarodowych i Politycznych Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego oraz Polska Akademia Umiejętności
• Journal: Studia Migracyjne - Przegląd Polonijny
• Year: 2019
• Volume: 45
• Issue: 3 (173)
• Pages: 41–58

Contributors

author

Mazurkiewicz Anna

• Uniwersytet Gdański