Rejecting “Misfits:” Canada and the Nansen Passport

After 1918, millions of refugees from the former Russian and Ottoman Empires found themselves without citizenship. To facilitate refugee travel and work, Dr. Fridtjof Nansen, League of Nations HCR, established an international identity certificate, generally known as the “Nansen passport” This docum...

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Bibliographic Details
Published in:International Migration Review
Main Author: Kaprielian-Churchill, Isabel
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: SAGE Publications 1994
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Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/019791839402800203
http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/019791839402800203