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🗓️ 24 March 2022

⏱️ 25 minutes

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As Poland welcomes almost 2 million Ukrainians in, it’s spending $4 million on a wall to keep Syrians, Iraqis, and Afghans out. Vox’s Sigal Samuel explains the myth of the “deserving” refugee. This episode was produced by Haleema Shah, edited by Matt Collette, engineered by Efim Shapiro, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram. Transcript at vox.com/todayexplained Support Today, Explained by making a financial contribution to Vox! bit.ly/givepodcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Among the first images we saw after Russian troops invaded Ukraine were of jammed highways
0:11.0	as Ukrainians fled their homes.
0:13.9	Almost immediately after the war, people got in their cars and on trains and set in days
0:18.8	long traffic jams to cross the border.
0:22.1	Europe is now seeing one of the worst refugee crises since World War II.
0:27.5	Unlike just about any recent refugee crisis that comes to mind, these Ukrainian refugees
0:33.2	are mostly being greeted with open arms.
0:35.8	We want to say the new life and the safe life is possible.
0:40.5	Maybe somewhere.
0:42.3	I mean Poland and other countries in Europe or other countries in the world.
0:47.9	On the show today we're going to talk about the myth of the deserving refugee.
0:52.2	By the world loves a Ukrainian refugee but wants to wall off so many of the other ones.
0:57.5	You know the brown ones.
0:59.4	It's today explained.
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