.... The Confederadas would financially and legally support these refugees by relocating them to visa-granting countries. Fernández Escobés Antonio Grupo Antifascista del Bronx migrants and exiles Spanish refugees Sociedades Hispanas Confederadas SHC Vidal Fabián World War II Asensio Torrado José Largo...

... anybody but the wealthy apply for asylum? This chapter shows that lawyers for asylum seekers such as Ira Gollobin and Robert Rubin argued that work authorization was necessary to ensure a true right to seek asylum and, in doing so, challenged a dichotomy between labor migrant and refugee that has...

...This chapter examines the geographies of community and resistance in Salem following the fire. The Salem fire created immediate and pressing problems for residents: where to sleep and what to eat. The next morning, the militia began to establish two large refugee camps that soon sparked tensions...

...This chapter discusses the lives of refugees who fled from Spain in 1939 and evaluates the significance of this transnational history on migration studies as well as Spanish and Argentine history. Population movements transfer more than just individual immigrants. They also transmit ideas from one...

...This chapter focuses on the politics of respectability in Little Saigon during the 1980s, in which the Vietnamese American middle class and younger white conservatives shared a mutual interest in promoting “a responsible image of the refugees,” as evidence of who had really won the Vietnam War...

... theologically relevant for Friends. Documenting the AFSC's efforts to help European and Japanese American refugees during World War II, the book shows that by 1950, Quakers in the AFSC had honed a distinctly Friendly approach to interracial relations that combined scholarly understandings of race...

... state interests. As such, the chapter first historicizes the entrance of gender on the global stage of the international system for managing refugees and asylum seekers, before outlining an understanding of gender as a legal category and identity construct. Finally, the chapter lays out the theoretical...

.... Midwest asylum ABC Settlement Agreement Central America immigration policy Madison Wisconsin refugees Central American Salvadorans sanctuary for draft resisters sanctuary movement violence Woodward Thomas activism Guatemalans immigrant justice campaigns Seege Ted Peña Elaine A placemaking...

...This chapter demonstrates how, after five years of heading up a few of the left-led Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) refugees, the DPO and District 65 were attacked and on the verge of collapse. It had proved almost impossible to continue to organize without the security provided...

...-Canadian culture is to exclude and marginalize English speakers. They have successfully passed many discriminatory and xenophobic laws to this end. The author shares how the exile experience influenced her not only to become a lawyer advocating for refugees forced to cross borders because of oppression...

... that, if the institutional life of gender in U.S. asylum should teach us anything, it is that gendered subjects and experiences are received problematically within the walls of U.S. law and politics. gender racialization Refugee Act 1980 mobility male one sex one gender system universal male subject Burog Perez...

... obligations to refugees and asylum seekers. This chapter also introduces readers to the scholars who have contributed essays to the anthology and the topics they will address. family reunification Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 INA Johnson Lyndon B Johnson Reed National Origins Quota Act 1924...

... of refugee protection in U.S. law—too high. The chapter also analyzes Supreme Court cases from the 2010s regarding the procedures accorded asylum seekers who ask for protection at the U.S.-Mexico border. Decisions in these cases have also misread the past, particularly the long history of immigrant court...

... on home front Benton County Ark Blunt James G Brown William “Buck ” First Arkansas Cavalry U S Harrison Marcus LaRue Mountain Feds Peace Society Phelps John S refugees Post colony system Rhea’s Mill Ark Rutherford J R Battle of Fayetteville Cabell William Price Michael Lee Robertson Brian...

...This chapter examines the work of the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) in the wake of World War II. Even before the United States officially entered the war, waves of refugees from the European conflict pushed the AFSC to act, and it established hostels to help the newcomers adjust...

...In this chapter, three LGBTIQ African refugees who have been resettled to the U.S. stage performances of belonging that insist upon seemingly contradictory desires to assimilate into neoliberal capitalist social formations while simultaneously indexing critiques of these very structures of power...

...Recent discourses around resettlement and national security often produce male heterosexual Syrian refugees as “threats” escaping war and their queer counterparts as “safe” refugees escaping only homophobia. Focusing on U.S. resettlement cases of Syrian LGBT applicants in Turkey, this chapter...

...The 130,000 Indochinese evacuated out of Saigon and resettled in America were encouraged to become “good refugees” by forgetting past traumas in order to move forward, the same advice Americans were allegedly giving themselves. This chapter argues that the losers of the Vietnam War, both Americans...

...This chapter explores how Iranian LGBTI refugees waiting in Turkey negotiate and respond to the tightening asylum policies of several nation-states. The recent asylum policies of the United States and Canada have stranded refugees in Turkey for an undetermined period of time, severely undermining...