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Subcategories - Asylum, Refugees

1. African Convention Expands the Definition of Refugees, An
2. Albania Opens Doors to Foreign Nationals
3. Amnesty International Is Founded
4. Building of the Berlin Wall
5. Canada’s Immigration Act of 1976
6. Chief Joseph
7. Civil Wars of Rwanda and Burundi from 1959 to 2000
8. Coast Guard Rescues Cuban Refugee Elián González
9. Cubans Flee to Florida and Receive Assistance
10. Dominique Pire
11. East Germans Flee to West to Escape Communist Regime
12. First Jewish Settlers
13. Fridtjof Nansen
14. A Helsinki Watch Report Proposes Reform of Refugee Laws
15. Immigration and Nationality Act
16. Iraq Uses Poison Gas Against Kurds
17. Mariel Boat Lift
18. McCarran-Walter Act
19. Muslim Refugees Flee Persecution in Myanmar
20. Nigeria-Biafra Civil War
21. Palestinian Refugees Flee Israel
22. Palestinian Refugees Form the Palestine Liberation Organization
23. Pire is Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
24. Refugee Relief Act
25. Refugees
26. Rwandan Refugees Flood Zaire
27. United Nations Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees Is Adopted
28. The United Nations Creates an Agency to Aid Palestinian Refugees
29. United Nations Drafts a Convention on Stateless Persons
30. United States Changes Policy on Cuban Refugees
31. United States Resumes Repatriating Haitian Boat People
32. “New” Immigration