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Our own Tara Zahra (Pozen Family Center for Human Rights Board member) has an excellent piece in Foreign Affairs, shedding important light on the current asylum crisis in Europe and beyond. History, she points out, has a tendency to repeat itself.

"In mid September, around 1,000 refugees were reportedly stranded on the border between Hungary and Serbia, with neither state willing to grant them asylum. The return of a “No-Man’s Land” on Eastern European soil is yet another disturbing reminder of how history can repeat itself. No-Man’s Land was last seen in Eastern Europe in 1938, when governments played a sick game of ping-pong with unwanted Jewish refugees, shunting them back and forth across state borders."

Read the entire article here.