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Nansen passport

noun

  1. a passport issued after World War I by the League of Nations to refugees unable to establish citizenship.


Nansen passport

noun

  1. a passport issued to stateless persons by the League of Nations after World War I
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of Nansen passport1

1920–25; after F. Nansen, on whose initiative an agreement to issue such passports was signed
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Word History and Origins

Origin of Nansen passport1

C20: named after F. Nansen
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Example Sentences

She points to the history of the Nansen passport, devised in the 1920s to help stateless refugees, as support for the feasibility of her plan.

Exhibits include some 30 passports, including a German Jew’s passport stamped with the letter “J” in the Nazi era, a “Nansen passport” for stateless refugees from 1937 and a modern-day provisional refugee passport.

He remained on a Nansen passport his whole life — a document issued for stateless people and refugees who could not obtain travel documents from a national authority.

From Nature

In the 1920's the young Nabokov, like other emigres, was really a stateless person traveling on a special Nansen passport.

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