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Refugee Crises and Displacement
The causes and humanitarian response to forced displacement.
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- How did the Nansen passport influence the modern refugee travel document system?
- How large was the UNHCR's annual budget in 1954, and how did the organisation typically fund itself?
- How many families did Pire's villages house at their peak?
- In which countries did the Friends Service Council and American Friends Service Committee carry out reconstruction and refugee work?
- What day-to-day work does the UNHCR actually do in refugee camps and with host governments?
- What did Georges Pire's 'European villages' provide that temporary refugee camps did not?
- What was the Nansen passport and how did it let stateless refugees legally cross borders?
- Why did the Nansen International Office for Refugees close in the same year it won the Nobel Peace Prize?
- Why was Alexis Léger declared a traitor by his own government and forced to flee France in 1940?
- Why was the UNHCR originally created with a mandate limited to just three years?
- Why was the UNHCR originally established as a temporary body in 1950?
- Why were displaced persons still living in camps thirteen years after the end of the Second World War?