Refugee policy
(c. 1980s onward)
(c. 1980s onward)
This policy replaced piecemeal policies with a more coherent framework.
What is the 1980 Refugee Act?
This administration set the lowest refugee admission levels since the Refugee Act was enacted.
What is the Trump administration?
When policymakers passed legislation in the 1920s, these types of attitudes were widespread.
What is nativism (or xenophobia or racist-nativism)?
This award-winning film follows a Hungarian-born Holocaust survivor who immigrates to the US.
What is The Brutalist?
Different from affirmative asylum, this process takes place in removal proceedings.
What is defensive applications for asylum?
This president was the first to make opposition to refugees and asylum seekers a “centerpiece” of their campaign.
Who is Trump?
In the 1950s and 60s this doctrine shaped US policies toward refugees.
What is anticommunism?
Ke Huy Quan, who won an Oscar for Everything Everywhere All At Once, spent a year in a refugee camp after leaving this country.
What is Vietnam?
The US joined this international regime in 1968.
What is the 1967 UN Protocol Relating to the Status of Refugees?
Scholars disagree on whether this is the main cause of low public approval for refugees, or if “it’s the economy, stupid.”
What is xenophobia/nativism?
In the 1980s and 90s, the authorities often used interdiction at sea targeting people fleeing this country.
What is Haiti?
In 2022 and 2023, many actors wore blue #WithRefugees ribbons to the Oscars provided by this organization.
What is the UNHCR (UN Refugee Agency)?
This legal principle frowns on returning a foreign national if that person has a well-founded fear of being persecuted due to race, religion, nationality, membership in a particular social group, or opinion.
What is non-refoulement?
The restoration of more generous refugee policies requires looking beyond the executive branch to these political actors.
Who are citizens and/or Congress?
In the 1980s, people from this Central American country were granted asylum at a much lower rate than other applicants.
What is El Salvador?
This Broadway musical is set in a predominantly Dominican-American neighborhood and features songs by Lin-Manuel Miranda.
What is In the Heights?
The 1980 Refugee Act established this new government agency.
What is ORR (Office of Refugee Resettlement)?
The Trump administration’s goal of indefinitely detaining children and families (including asylum seekers) is an example of this type of policy according to Wasem.
What is criminalizing asylum?
Members of Congress have been frustrated by this “overreach” of executive power.
What is parole?
The young adult graphic novel When Stars Are Scattered tells the true story of two brothers who are refugees from this country.
What is Somalia?