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respective rulers revoke their citizenship on matters. Jurists introduced the term stateless to describe people who had been driven into permanent exile. Writer Vladimir Noble Cause himself one of those affected said it was as if they had dropped off the face of the planet over two Million People mainly russians and armenians were brutally up rooted in force to begin a new life elsewhere they dispersed to the four corners of the earth. But in spite of all their misfortune the stateless people were lucky enough to have a headstrong huma
than selling themselves on the street which many unfortunately had to do. to be able to complete his time nansen worked closely with alberto toma director of the international labor office he had also been set up by the league of nations shortly after its founding in one nine hundred ninety. by collaborating they could relocate stateless refugees to places where workers were needed they sent out questionnaires to discover what measures the governments would be prepared to take i bet tomorrow. wanted to turn the international labor office into an organization that could create a macro economic balance between unemployment and labor shortages worldwide now he had a project that legitimized his organization and its role due to the refugees why because no one asks for stateless. refugees.
would be to get their own land a place to call home she s. nansen invested much energy in this project which he felt particularly passionate about his plan was to settle fifty thousand refugees at the edge of the caucasus and soviet territory after receiving the mandate from the league of nations nansen visited the site accompanied by technical experts. even democrats all to compress at first glance this project looked great but in reality there were huge ideological problems. first of all this union was soviet young will often say the western power was one very keen on creating ties with the soviet union which they were fighting elsewhere from. all could do so the question was could the western backers and russia which was also investing in the project reach an agreement in the end nothing came of it oppa. i want. to get the western powers and the soviet union to agree so his resettlement project failed.
nansen assembled a group of lawyers comprised of stateless russians together they considered what rights and responsibilities would be associated with such an identity document for different host countries their goal was to coordinate residency and working conditions and to facilitate travel nansen embarked on a bearable world tour to present and promote his passport in as many countries as possible. look i m single so i commissioned munson and his office which was linked to the league of nations had virtually no financial resources and when no funding didn t do all they had was an operating budget that was simply ridiculous rigid function mulching to true the league of nations gave nansen just fifteen thousand pounds sterling which were allocated for the evacuation of the refugees from constantinople. when
a homeland days and i was like my parents i had nothing i was completely stateless are the hands of yasser. arafat country defeated ya as a student in berlin papa did any job going he was dying of hunger. if you hear he was studying to be an engineer but he did all kinds of work ethic three me see he looked after an awful boy whom he took for walks in the park and who treated him like a dog you think of the shia i have a the hasidim wife is that you worked in a cinema and made the music by turning the hurdy gurdy public did it all. high commissioner nansen also tried to find work for all of the stateless refugees. of course it s not easy for former princesses who ve never held a broom in their hands before to kneel down and scrub the steps and floors of public buildings but now they do it without grumbling because it s still better