Cold War refugee quotas collapsed once anti-communist imperatives ended

Evidence

As in Europe, the early 1990s saw public panics about being “swamped” by refugees and illegal migrants from less-developed countries. Anti-immigration campaigns evoked nineteenth century fears of the “yellow peril.” But there were new factors, such as reactions against economic restructuring and globalization, and competition between old and new minorities, In the USA, anti-immigration groups sought the proclamation of English as the “official language,” and lobbied for the restriction of welfare payments to illegal immigrants and their children. Refugee quotas were cut, since Cold War imperatives no longer applied. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 3870

Categorization

• QUESTION: The claim that anti-immigration rhetoric fused Cold War panic with ‘yellow peril’ fears — worth tracing how these two frames combined and what replaced them.
• XREF: Parallels the ‘moral panics over outsiders’ pattern from Complaints About Immodesty literature and other chapters on racialized panics. — connects to: Hostile enemy imagery in expellee politics faded as Cold War tensions eased. — Manuel Borutta and Jan C. Jansen, Vertriebene and Pieds-Noirs in Postwar…, 916