In 1921, Fridtjof Nansen had no budget, no staff, and no legal framework. He had a single room at the League of Nations. From it, he invented the modern refugee system -- and its structural failures. #DisplacedPeoples #RefugeeHistory

#DisplacedPeoples #RefugeeHistory

In 1921, Fridtjof Nansen had no budget, no staff, and no legal framework. He had a single room at the League of Nations. From it, he invented the modern refugee system -- and its structural failures. #DisplacedPeoples #RefugeeHistory

@bryanbanksphd.bsky.social @jkeindorf.bsky.social @salmahargal.bsky.social, Sibylle Fourcaud, Jan C. Jansen and ourselves. #RefugeeHistory #MigrationHistory #Exile #Asylum

In 1922, Vladimir Nabokov received a Nansen Passport -- 'a very inferior document of a sickly green hue.' It acknowledged his existence without granting belonging. This book begins there, with the invention of the modern refugee. #DisplacedPeoples #WWII #RefugeeHistory

hats off to @usnatarchives.bsky.social
for displaying pre-WW2 refugee documents - a refugee from Soviet Armenia seeking to stay in USA in 1934 bc he was a political or religious refugee and would be stateless if deported. Act of June 8, 1934 is often forgotten in #RefugeeHistory

How do you tell a story that changed a nation?

Tự Do, a Vietnamese refugee vessel, is being reinterpreted @seamuseum.

Thanks to expert advisors helping us navigate this powerful history.
🔗 sea.museum/en/whats-on/our-fleet/tu-do

#RefugeeHistory #TuDo #VietnameseBoatPeople

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#Jewishhistory #Refugeehistory #Womenshistory #BlackHistory

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Hand in Hand with @renecassin.bsky.social The Jewish Voice For Human Rights

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Both honoured and daunted to be speaking at this event about female refugee detention - a topic I became an expert in whilst researching my mother's experience of it in 1940...

#refugees #refugeeswelcome #femalehistory #refugeehistory #jewishhistory