Refugees Welcome? Historicizing U.S. Resettlement and Asylum Policy
Refugees Welcome? Historicizing U.S. Resettlement and Asylum Policy

Author(s): Chiara Galli, Molly Fee
Subject(s): Asylum, Refugees, Migration as Policy-fields
Published by: Transnational Press London
Keywords: Refugees; Historicizing; US; Resettlement; Asylum Policy; Asylum; Policy;
Summary/Abstract: During President Donald Trump’s tenure (2017-2021), advocates decried the death of asylum, and the United States went from hosting the world’s largest refugee resettlement program to being one of the most unwelcoming countries for people seeking refuge. Trump’s attacks on refugee rights outdid those of his predecessors. Yet, the U.S. has long had a fraught history vis-à-vis its Convention obligations. A relative latecomer, the U.S. never ratified the 1951 Refugee Convention, waiting to adopt the 1967 Refugee Protocol instead, and only incorporating international refugee law in its domestic policy with the 1980 Refugee Act.

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