Nansen passport

The Nansen passport is a passport for stateless refugees and emigrants. It was designed in 1922 by the League of Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, Fridtjof Nansen, who was being awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. The Nansen passport was introduced on July 5, 1922 and was initially of 31, later recognized by 53 states. The principle of the pass in 1946 continued through the London Travel Document and the travel document of the Geneva Convention.

The Nansen passport was introduced after the First World War for stateless Russian refugees as a travel document; supposedly the first pass but did Reported from England political journalist Oscar Levy. In the wake of the Nansen passport was extended to Armenian (1922 ), Assyrian and Turkish (1928 ) and refugees from the Saar (1935 ). The Nansen passport was filled by the authority of the State in which the refugee was staying. It was valid for one year and then had to be extended. The pass allowed the return to the pass issuing country.

He was the ordinary passport of a sovereign state not equivalent. Vladimir Nabokov describes his experience with the Nansen passport as " a most inferior document of sickly green color. His owner was little more than a paroled criminals and had to take the greatest exertions, when he wanted to travel abroad about - the smaller the country, the more circumstances they made " Among the most famous pass holders included Marc Chagall, Igor. Stravinsky, Aristotle Onassis and Anna Pavlova.

Hannah Arendt was dedicated in her work The Origins of Totalitarianism, inter alia, the problem of statelessness and called for a general right to have rights that come very close to the Nansen passport.

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