Nansen passport

The front of a Nansen Passport.

Nansen passports were internationally recognized identity cards first issued by the League of Nations to stateless refugees.

Origins

Designed in 1921^[1] by Fridtjof Nansen, in 1942 they were honored by governments in 52 countries and were the first refugee travel documents. Approximately 450,000 Nansen passports were issued, helping hundreds of thousands of stateless people to immigrate to a country that would have them.

The Nansen passport was developed as a result of a series of citizenship laws in European countries, including but not limited to the United Kingdom, Germany and France, that excluded millions of ethnic minorities, which were erstwhile residents in their countries, from attaining citizenship. Hundreds of thousands of them stayed permanently abroad.

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  A stamp in a Nansen Passport.

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  On the wall of City Hall in Oslo, Norway

Nobel Peace Prize

The Nansen International Office for Refugees was awarded the 1938 Nobel Peace Prize for its efforts to establish the Nansen passports.^[2]

Today

While Nansen passports are no longer issued, present national authorities, including the United Nations, issue documents for stateless people and refugees. These include: Certificate of Identity (or "alien's passport"), the "Refugee Travel Document" and the United Nations laissez-passer.

References

1. ^ Fridtjof Nansen, Indiana University Center for the Study of Global Change, 2006. Retrieved 22 February 2011.
2. ^ Fridtjof Nansen, Nobelprize.org, 1922. Retrieved 22 February 2011.

External links

• Fridtjof Nansen Memorial Lecture 2001
• The Nansen Passport at the Dead Media Archive.

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