Calculated Kindness: Refugees and America's Half-open Door, 1945 to the Present
- ISBN-10
- 0029273404
- ISBN-13
- 9780029273401
- Pages
- 346
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1986
- Publisher
- Free Press
- Authors
- Gil Loescher, John Allen Scanlan
Description
In this carefully documented account of United States policy toward refugees since World War II, the authors examine the competing policies and principles that have regulated immigration practices in the United States. They focus on the conflicting pulls of ideological opportunities, ethnic immigration interests, humanitarianism, restrictionism, and the objectives of foreign policy initiatives, and argue that the Federal government has been selective in accepting refugees despite the ideologically neutral standard set by the Refugee Act of 1980. Based on interviews with government authorities, U.N. officials, and personnel from private settlement agencies, Loescher and Scanlan demonstrate that refugees welcomed are mainly those claiming to be oppressed by left-wing regimes. ISBN 0-02-927340-4: $22.50.
