Traces of Kinship Care: Preliminary Findings From Nansen Passport Holders’ Documents in the League of Nations and Arolsen Archives

dc.contributor.authorTames, Ismee
dc.date.accessioned2024-05-16T22:00:21Z
dc.date.available2024-05-16T22:00:21Z
dc.date.issued2024-03-04
dc.descriptionThis article is published under a Creative Commons CC-BY-NC license.
dc.description.abstractThis article offers a new perspective on a body of literature that has been growing since the modern concept of “statelessness” became a pressing concern of diplomats and the displaced alike more than a century ago: it studies the “voices” of the stateless as captured in the archival documents of the organizations designed to deal with refugees through the lens of family and kinship care. This will help us to gain an understanding of how stateless refugees and the officials, administrators and humanitarians who assisted them navigated and negotiated the kinds of care requested, needed, withheld, or provided, and that have been captured in the documents coming out of these processes. By positioning care as relational and embedded within historical documents, this contribution offers glimpses of the physical remnants of the processes that took shape between the various actors. From these explorations, it follows that the distinction between anonymous care, as provided by humanitarian or state organizations, and personal care may not have been so clear-cut: sometimes helpers and those being helped turn out both to be Nansen passport holders. The focus on family and kin moreover allows to move beyond the institutional focus on individuals and to understand statelessness and displacement as an experience of families and communities instead.
dc.identifier.citationTames, I. (2024). Traces of Kinship Care: Preliminary Findings From Nansen Passport Holders’ Documents in the League of Nations and Arolsen Archives. International Migration Review, 1-26. https://doi.org/10.1177/01979183231225943
dc.identifier.issn1747-7379
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1177/01979183231225943
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10315/42045
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherInternational Migration Review
dc.rightsAttribution-NonCommercial 4.0 Internationalen
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
dc.subjectFamily displacement
dc.subjectInternational history
dc.subjectLong-term trauma and care
dc.subjectStatelessness
dc.titleTraces of Kinship Care: Preliminary Findings From Nansen Passport Holders’ Documents in the League of Nations and Arolsen Archives
dc.typeArticle

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