GEOG 130 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Human Capital Flight
27 Mar 2019
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Asylum seekers do not go to us, we do not open our doors. Number of afghans seeking political asylum abroad has spiked dramatically during the past two years. Individual countries have the right to recognize certain cross-border arrivals as refugees and not others. During the cold war, the us recognized as refugees persons fleeing from countries in the communist grip. Cuba was the only country consistently being treated as refugees in the. Wet policy: prior to 1993, all you had to do was show some papers and you got refugee status. If you are caught in any international waters, you just had to show you were cuban and you could come to the us. Dry feet policy: if you are caught in international waters, you will go back. You have to have feet on us soil to get a refugee status. No feet policy (obama): cubans have no special circumstances to bypass the rules.
