Norman L. Zucker

Refugees in America in the 1990s: A Reference Handbook.

Preface Introduction Refugee Resettlement in the United States by Philip A. Holman Patterns in Refugee Resettlement and Adaptation by David W. Haines The Refugees Afghans by Juliene G. Lipson and Patricia A. Omidian Chinese from Southeast Asia by John K. Whitmore Cubans by Joseph Coleman Eastern Europeans by Elzbieta M. Gozdziak Ethiopians and Eritreans by Tekle M. Woldemikael Haitians by Frederick J. Conway and Susan Buchanan Stafford Hmong by Timothy Dunnigan, Douglas P. Olney, Miles A. McNall, and Marline A. Spring Iranians by Mehdi Bozorgmehr Khmer by Carol A. Mortland Lao by Pamela A. DeVoe Soviet Jews by Steven J. Gold Vietnamese by Nguyen Manh Hung and David W. Haines Comparative Material The Origins and Initial Resettlement Patterns of Refugees in the United States by Linda W. Gordon Public and Political Opinion on the Admission of Refugees by Rita J. Simon Hardening the Heart: The Global Refugee Problem in the 1990s by Bill Frelick Documentary Films about Refugees by Beatrice Nied Hackett An Annotated Introduction to the Literature by David W. Haines Index

Refugee Resettlement in the United States: Policy and Problems:

Federal refugee resettlement policies and programs, like admission policy, developed in an ad hoc, reactive way. Federal involvement in resettlement started out modestly as aid to Cubans, grew enormously with aid to the Indochinese, and continued to grow even more with a catchall program for Soviet and other refugees. Over the years, the private nonprofit voluntary agencies became institutionalized as the private-sector link between admissions and local resettlement. The Refugee Act of 1980 was an attempt to design a coherent and comprehensive refugee admission and resettlement policy. The act will have to be periodically considered for reauthorization, and it is clear that while the goal of successful economic and social integration of the refugee into American society is universally agreed upon, the modes of resettlement are controversial. Resettlement problems for policymakers, host communities, and refugees remain.

Desperate crossings : seeking refuge in America

The essays in this volume assess key aspects of Soviet society and social policy under Gorbachev. It provides a survey of Soviet family problems and demographic change, economic and labour policy, the alcohol problem, nationality policy, and trends in culture and communications. Mark Field describes the contemporary Soviet family and the USSRs high and climbing rates of divorce, illegitimacy, abortion, and infant mortality, Vladimir Kontorovich discusses the poor distribution of labor and skills and the ineffective incentive structures in the Soviet economy. The campaign to stamp out alcoholism (a factor in declining life expectancy) is chronicled by Vladimir Treml. Paul Goble argues that minority nationalism in the USSR today primarily involves competition with Russians (or other ethnic groups) for good jobs and scarce resources. Anthony Olcott analyzes recent trends in both high culture and popular culture. What is being published in the era of glasnost and what are the Soviet people actually reading and watching? Ellen Mickiewicz describes the changes in communications technology and in television and radio programming in recent years.

From Immigration to Refugee Redefinition: A History of Refugee and Asylum Policy in the United States

Refugee policy in the United States is a recent offspring of American immigration policy. Like its parent, refugee admissions are firmly entangled in the thicket of national politics and are Janus-faced. One face presses for admission, the other urges restriction. While the gates of admission are always guarded, time and circumstance determine which face prevails.

Contemporary American Immigration and Refugee Policy: An Overview.

Abstract Contemporary American Immigration and Refugee Policy: An Overview, discusses the fundamental questions of immigration and refugee policy by establishing a continuum of entry legitimacy. The continuum starts from a point of uncontested legal entry and terminates at a point of uncontested illegal entry. Based on the continuum, the author discusses normal-flow immigration, refugee admissions and the existing resettlement system, Cuban and Haitian Special Entrants, the difficulties of separating economic from political motivation in migration, proposals to curtail illegal entry, and the paradoxes inherent in policy because of conflicting pressures and attitudes.