This week on the Lectures in History podcast, Tulane University History Professor

Jana Lipman explores Cold War refugees from Cuba and Vietnam. Her lecture also highlights

the Refugee Act of 1980, a landmark piece of U.S. legislation establishing a comprehensive

and uniform refugee resettlement and asylum system.

The act defined a refugee as someone with a well-founded fear of persecution.

More in a moment.

All right. So welcome again everyone. And today what we're going to be talking about is Cold War refugees.

And in many ways this connects to our conversations we've had up to date.

Last class, remember we talked about Mexican Americans and Puerto Ricans. Today

we're going to start with Cuban refugees. So this is continuing with our discussion of Spanish-speaking

migrants. But today we're really going to be focusing on refugees and we're going to be looking

at Cubans, Vietnamese, and the 1980 Refugee Act.

And just to remind ourselves, what group of refugees did we talk about earlier this semester?

What have we spoken about?

What group of refugees? Sully?

Hungarian refugees, right?

We've talked about Hungarian refugees, specifically during the Hungarian refugees. Sully? Hungarian refugees, right? We've talked about Hungarian refugees, specifically during the

Hungarian uprising. Remember, the United States admitted 36,000 Hungarians into the United

States, and this is part of Cold War policy, right? The idea was because they were seen as fleeing communism,

that the United States was willing to accept them as part of this sort of Cold War framework.

Today we're going to be looking at Cubans and Vietnamese and really thinking about how these

relationships between U.S. foreign policy and migration

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