 She argued that as state governments began to emphasize national identity as a prerequisite for full legal status, the number of minority resident aliens increased along with the number of stateless persons whom no state was willing to recognize legally.The two potential solutions to the refugee problem, repatriation and naturalization, both proved incapable of solving the crisis.Arendt argued that repatriation failed to solve the refugee crisis because no government was willing to take them in and claim them as their own.