Impetus for immigration reform: Asian refugees and the cold war

Journal of American-East Asian Relations

Volumn 7, Issue 3-4, 1998, Pages 127-156

  Davis, Michael G ^a  

^a St Stephen's Episcopal School   (United States)

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EID: 77957735742     PISSN: 10583947     EISSN: 18765610     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/187656198793646013     Document Type: Article

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4. See David Wyman, Paper Walls: American and the Refugee Crisis, 1938-41 (Amherst, Mass., 1968)
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14. Ibid., 25 Aug. 1965, 21:21758, quoted in Vernon M. Briggs, Jr., and Stephen Moore, Still an Open Door? U.S. Immigration Policy and the American Economy (Washington, D.C., 1994), 17.
15. Gil Loescher and John Scanlan, Calculated Kindness: Refugees and America's Half-Open Door, 1945-Present (New York, 1986), 73.
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