Elusive Refuge

Meet Laura Madokoro, historian and Associate Professor in the
Department of History at Carleton University. She is the author of
Elusive Refuge: Chinese Migrants in the Cold War published by
Harvard in 2016. We talk about why studying the past is important,
what historical exclusions say about our immigration system, how
the grand narratives of humanitarianism may be disguising violence
and displacement, and the settler colonial project of using race to
inform our immigration policies.