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Closing Our Doors

In 1939, a refugee ban kept 20,000 Jewish children out of the U.S.

by Ellen Umansky via Slate on March 8, 2017

Close the Gate? Refugees, Radicals, and the Red Scare of 1919

If radicalism meant insecurity, and immigration meant radicalism, the government's course was clear.

by Andrew Lipsett via We're History on November 30, 2015

Anti-Syrian Muslim Refugee Rhetoric Mirrors Calls to Reject Jews During Nazi Era

The fears that were conjured by nativists 80 years ago are chillingly similar to what we're hearing today.

by Lee Fang via The Intercept on November 18, 2015

What Americans Thought of Jewish Refugees on the Eve of World War II

On the eve of World War 2, most Americans opposed granting asylum to Jewish refugees fleeing Hitler.

by Ishaan Tharoor via Washington Post on November 17, 2015

Syrian children, possibly in Little Syria, Manhattan.

Remembering New York’s Little Syria

The ethnic enclave in Lower Manhattan was home to refugees fleeing civil war and entrepreneurs taking advantage of a globalizing economy.

by Ben Railton via The Saturday Evening Post on April 25, 2023

‘Orientalism,’ Then and Now

Edward Said's Orientalism is still with us forty years after his influential book’s publication, but it is not the same as it was.

by Adam Shatz via New York Review of Books on May 20, 2019

Syrian float in the Chicago Liberty Day parade, 1918.

What We Can Learn from America’s Other Muslim Ban (Back in 1918)

Stacy Fahrenthold compares Donald Trump's Muslim ban to that of Woodrow Wilson back in 1918.

by Stacy Fahrenthold via Tropics of Meta on February 8, 2017

How American's Rejection of Jews Fleeing Nazi Germany Haunts Our Refugee Policy Today

On International Holocaust Remembrance Day, it's important to remember why America welcomes refugees.

by Dara Lind via Vox on January 27, 2017

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