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They Wanted Us to Leave:
Refugee Migrations after WWII
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In Europe today a debate rages about asylum: some paint a picture of a system paralyzed by fraud, others of an inhumane machine sending vulnerable people back home to face persecution. Refugees are seen as a problem of the developing word. But the system that is today the object of debate was born out of European displacements after World War I and World War II. This piece explores the origins of the international refugee system.


This piece is available from the Public Radio Exchange.


This piece was produced for Radio Netherland's Euroquest and aired on October 25, 2005, on WFUV on June 3, 2006, and on RFI on August 18, 2008. A shorter version aired on November 15, 2005, on Prime Time Postscript.


Producers: Olivia Bueno and Sarah Elzas.
Recorded in New York
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American Purgatory: Political asylum in the age of terrorism (full-length documentary)
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Political Asylum/Asile Politique, asylum in France vs. the US
LINKS
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UNHCR, the United Nations Refugee Agency.
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Site about the 1951 Refugee Convention.
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Text of the 1967 refugee protocol, extending refugee protection worldwide.
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Aristide Zolberg at the New School.
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The European Council on Refugees and Exiles.
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An interesting overview of European refugee history from the BBC.
 
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