Nobody Wants Us
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The documentary film, Nobody Wants Us, examines the impact of the Steamship Quanza controversy in September 1940 on U.S. immigration policy. Based on oral history interviews with Steamship Quanza survivors, analysis of archival documents from ship records, U.S Federal Court in Norfolk, Virginia, U.S. National Archives, U.S. State Department, and U,S. Department of Immigration and Naturalization, Nobody Wants Us shows how the U.S. State Department closed the visa program for political refugees and others fleeing Nazi Europe as a direct result of Steamship Quanza controversy
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Publication Date
2019
Publisher
Seltzer Film and Video
