News Editor for Asia-Pacific @AFP. Ex @foreignaffairs, @foreignpolicy in New York, Nairobi, Cairo. Author of “Beyond the Sand and Sea.”
Jul 4, 2020 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
This a thousand times over. Much of my recent work has been in refugee camps where large numbers of people (used to) get resettled to the US. The myth of America once loomed so large in these places, but in the span of a few years it has been exposed as just that - a myth.
I don't think many Americans grasp what leading the world in refugee resettlement did for the US image abroad - the extent to which the US became a beacon of hope in the wake of the Refugee Act of 1980.
