"Good Refugees" and "Bad Refugees" - What's Different?

Throughout history and into today, our country has treated various groups of people fleeing violence, persecution, and death quite differently. But why?

In this episode, we travel back to the Vietnam War, in the wake of which the United States finally enacts a law granting protection to refugees. We talk with Julian Saporiti, a Vietnamese-American ethnomusicologist and scholar, about his mom's experience fleeing Vietnam, his music about another refugee's experience, and his studies of other groups of refugees who have also sought safety in the U.S.