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SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
1/3/2022
Immigration Policies like Title 42 Have Long Encouraged Abuse and Exploitation
by Ivón Padilla-Rodríguez
The militarization of the border increases the likelihood that undocumented migrants will be exploited and abused by smugglers, traffickers, and employers.
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SOURCE: Public Books
8/3/2021
The Migration Crisis is a Gendered Violence Crisis
by Laura Briggs and María Josefina Saldaña-Portillo
Central American women are frequently pushed to migrate by the threat of sexual violence. American policy inflicts further gendered harm through family separation and border militarization.
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SOURCE: Jewish News of Northern California
2/26/2020
This Historian Draws Lessons About Family Separation at U.S.-Mexico Border from Kindertransport Artifacts
Craig-Norton’s findings offer parallels to the migrant child-parent separation issues of today and provide valuable lessons.
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SOURCE: Morning Call
8/4/2019
Philly’s American Revolution museum steps up to help migrants succeed
The free, eight-session evening program aims to strengthen immigrants' understanding of the nation's revolution and evolution.
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11-15-15
How Unprecedented Is the Mass Migration of Peoples Today?
by Pearl Duncan
Viewed through our DNA, it fits with a pattern of human behavior.
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SOURCE: AHA Today
10-27-15
Perfect Timing: the AHA’s upcoming annual meeting will focus on migration
Which lessons from the past are ultimately going to be most helpful for creating a more humane future? The 2016 annual meeting will offer historians many chances to debate that question.
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10-25-15
The Hordes Are Banging on the Gates of Europe?
by Thomas Nail
It’s past time to retire this kind of language. The fact that it’s still being used reflects the crisis that is Europe.
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SOURCE: The Conversation
10-5-15
Why Hungary’s PM should read up on his history before shunning Syrian refugees
by Ursula Rothe
For a start, Syria has a much longer Christian history than Hungary And. 2,000 years ago Hungary was home to a very large and prosperous Syrian community.
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SOURCE: historiansforrefugees
8-9-15
Historians issue statement in support of European migrants
The statement was initiated by Dr. Jan Kunnas from Finland but currently working at KTH in Sweden and Dr. Viktor Pàl from Hungary but currently working at WU Wien in Austria, as a response to their frustration with the xenophobic discussion in their countries unleashed by the current influx of refugees.
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10-4-15
This Is How Douglas MacArthur Dealt with Poor, Starving People
by William Lambers
We should follow his example.
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10-4-15
The Shameful Response to the Refugee Crisis in Europe
by Maurizio Albahari
We can shed tears for little Alan Kurdi, but we forfeit the right if we don’t do something.
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9-29-15
These Are the Hard Steps that Must Be Taken to Resolve the Syrian Mess
by Dr. Alon Ben-Meir
What started as a civil war in Syria nearly five years ago has now evolved into an international crisis unmatched by any other since World War II.
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9-27-15
Get Used to It Europe: Homogenous States Are a Thing of the Past
by Lawrence Davidson
The population in western and central Europe has been shifting in the direction of diversity for the last seventy years.
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9-14-15
Be Like Ike: Give Safe Haven to War Refugees
by William Lambers
Ike ordered food and other assistance for the refugees. Welcome kits were provided. Obama should follow his example.
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SOURCE: Huffington Post
9-12-15
What History Can Teach Us About The Worst Refugee Crisis Since WWII
"European states were the architects of the modern refugee regime."
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SOURCE: Informed Comment
9-6-15
Whether Jewish Refugees in ’30s or Syrians today, USA Falls Short of own Ideals
by Juan Cole
All the same arguments against letting in the Jews are now being deployed to keep out the Syrians.
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SOURCE: NYT
9-4-15
Treatment of Migrants Evokes Memories of Europe’s Darkest Hour
Hungary's chief rabbi: "It was horrifying when I saw those images of police putting numbers on people’s arms,”
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SOURCE: The Social Historian (blog)
10-2-14
The Real History of Multicultural Britain
by Jonathan Healey
We are a nation of migrants. It’s a phrase that gets thrown around a lot these days, but is it true?
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SOURCE: ArchNews
2-11-13
Isotopic data show farming arrived in Europe with migrants
For decades, archaeologists have debated how farming spread to Stone Age Europe, setting the stage for the rise of Western civilization. Now, new data gleaned from the teeth of prehistoric farmers and the hunter-gatherers with whom they briefly overlapped shows that agriculture was introduced to Central Europe from the Near East by colonizers who brought farming technology with them....