Rethinking the Postwar International Migration Regime from the Global South: Venezuela in a Global History of White Immigration
Journal: Itinerario
Year: 2022

Abstract Between 1947 and early 1952, the International Refugee Organization (IRO), which was established within the framework of the United Nations to “solve” the so-called European refugee problem after the end of the Second World War, resettled one million European refugees—victims of Nazism as well as East European refugees who escaped the Red Army—all over the world. The IRO's resettlement project is regarded as a blueprint for the establishment of the postwar international migration regime