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Desperate crossings : seeking refuge in America

Author: Norman L Zucker; Naomi Flink Zucker
Publisher: Armonk, N.Y. : M.E. Sharpe, Inc., ©1996.
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The end of the Cold War has brought with it many changes of attitude and policy in the political arena; however, nowhere has change been so emotionally charged as in the area of politically-based emigration. Refugee policy is the driving force behind many of today's headlines, influencing both foreign and domestic policy. In Desperate Crossings, authors Norman L. and Naomi Flink Zucker chronicle and analyze the
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Additional Physical Format: Online version:
Zucker, Norman L.
Desperate crossings.
Armonk, N.Y. : M.E. Sharpe, Inc., c1996
(OCoLC)656285084
Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Norman L Zucker; Naomi Flink Zucker
ISBN: 1563247275 9781563247279 1563247283 9781563247286
OCLC Number: 34548872
Description: xii, 171 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents: Introduction: Crossings to America --
1. A Shifting Course: Immigrants --
2. A Foreign-Policy Compass: Refugees and Asylum Seekers --
3. The Mariel Floodtide: Mass Escape --
4. Erecting Floodgates: Escape by Sea --
5. Erecting Fences: Escape Over Land --
6. In Foreign Waters: Barring Escape --
7. Charting a New Course.
Responsibility: Norman L. Zucker, Naomi Flink Zucker.
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Abstract:

The end of the Cold War has brought with it many changes of attitude and policy in the political arena; however, nowhere has change been so emotionally charged as in the area of politically-based emigration. Refugee policy is the driving force behind many of today's headlines, influencing both foreign and domestic policy. In Desperate Crossings, authors Norman L. and Naomi Flink Zucker chronicle and analyze the phenomenon of mass escape that began with the Haitians, but exploded into the American consciousness in the spring of 1980 with the Mariel boatlift and the subsequent mass exodus from Central America, and was most recently manifested in the Haitian and Cuban exoduses of 1994. In a compelling and carefully documented narrative, they identify the troika of interests - foreign policy, domestic pressures, and costs - that have controlled and determined the American response to refugees since before the Second World War, continuing until today.

Desperate Crossings concludes by proposing a comprehensive and politically palatable approach to future refugee flows, both in our hemisphere and for the world community-at-large - including Europe and Asia. The authors suggest how, by changing the course of its refugee policies and programs, the United States can better respond to both the needs of refugees and the demands of its citizens.

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