Tag: Refugee
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Tracing specific individuals among the Russian refugees who received the Nansen passport can be quite challenging due to the complexity and volume of documents in the League of Nations Refugees Mixed Archival Group (Nansen Fonds).
There is no central repository containing the names of all refugees. Instead, lists of names and correspondence between refugees and the Nansen Office are dispersed across various record groups. These records are often incomplete and may require significant time to review. Consequently, our staff cannot conduct thorough searches for specific individuals or families.
However, the Nansen Fonds has been digitized and is accessible on the UN Archives Geneva platform: https://archives.ungeneva.org/refugees-mixed-archival-group-nansen-fonds.
Optical Character Recognition (OCR) technology has been applied to the digitized files, enabling full-text keyword searches within the documents. This advancement allows researchers to find relevant information more easily than before.
We also recommend consulting the tutorial on the Refugees Mixed Archival Group, The Nansen Fonds, for additional guidance.
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- Refugees holding permits type B or S may be employed with the United Nations on all types of contracts. Holders of permits type S must renounce their refugee status before being recruited. After their separation from the organization, they can request to reinstate their refugee status and reapply for a permit S if they continue to live in Switzerland. Holders of permits type B do not have to renounce their status as their permits will be replaced by a carte de legitimation while working with an international organization.
- Refugees holding permits F may be recruited as non-staff members only (consultants or interns).
- Refugees holding permits N may not be recruited by the UN.
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Refugees outside Switzerland may be recruited by the United Nations if they can provide, before being recruited,
an official document from the State which admitted them as refugees allowing them to freely leave and return to their country of residence any time, and
a valid travel document.