“America’s ‘Boat People’”
“America’s ‘Boat People’”
Cold War Geopolitics of Refuge
Chapter 1 situates the development of the 1980 Refugee Act within the context of efforts to deter Haitian asylum seekers. The chapter argues that the exclusionary Haitian Program would plant the seeds of a racialized deterrence policy. The history this chapter traces shows how humanitarianism and deterrence are simultaneous and symbiotic. U.S. foreign policy manifests in humanitarian rescue and migration control. This chapter illustrates how the racialized construction of a dichotomous discourse of rescue versus deterrence, good versus bad migrant, and bona fide versus bogus refugee animates exclusionary migration practices and policies.
Keywords: Cold War, deterrence, refugee, asylum, racialization
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