Strategic Humanitarianism and US Refugee Admissions after the Cold War.
The United States has historically been the world's leader in refugee resettlement. Yet, there has been little scholarship on the determinants of US refugee admissions policies. This paper asks, why does the United States resettle refugees from certain countries over others? How have these prioritie...
| Publicado en: | International Studies Quarterly Vol. 69; no. 3; pp. 1 - 15 |
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Oxford University Press / USA
Sep2025
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