Ann Cooper presents the first of four reports on refugees in the post-Cold War era. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, most analysts expected an easing of the world's refugee burden. But the end of the Cold War made for a more unstable world, and thus ever more refugees. Created after World War Two to deal with what was considered a temporary refugee crisis, the U-N refugee agency today oversees a vast global bureaucracy in charge of huge, semi-permanent cities of refugees.
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