“To Reach the Lands of Freedom”: Petitions of Polish Displaced Persons to American Poles, Moral Screening and the Role of Diaspora in Refugee Resettlement
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DOI: 10.1080/14780038.2019.1704348
Abstract: ABSTRACT In 1949, in the wake of the USA’s Displaced Persons Act of 1948, the American Committee for the Resettlement of Polish Displaced Persons received thousands of letters from refugees of peasant and worker background… read more here.
Keywords: diaspora; american poles; polish displaced; role ... See more keywords