stateless person
Person without citizenship
A stateless person is someone who is not recognized as a citizen by any country.
This can result from gaps in nationality laws, state succession, or deliberate denationalization.
Stateless persons often lack basic rights—to work, travel, marry legally, or access services—because citizenship typically grants these: The treaty aimed to reduce the number of stateless persons worldwide.
- nationalityLegal belonging to country
- naturalizationLegal path to belonging
- identity papersDocuments proving one's self
- citizenshipStatus as state member
- legal identityOfficially recognized individual status
sovereignty · jurisdiction · no man's land · transit zone · border crossing · asylum · colonial legacy · birth registration · legal limbo · refugee · human dignity · Rohingya · discrimination · marginalization · legal reform · asylum seeker · freedom of movement · alien
- residentsresident, residents, inhabitants, inhabitant, local
- citizenshipcitizen, citizenship laws, citizenship law, citizenship test, citizenship ceremony
- displaced peoplerefugee, displaced, IDPs, asylum seeker, displaced persons
- legal statuslegal status, legal capacity, civil status, legal entity, legal identity
- refugeesrefugee camps, refugee camp, displaced persons, refugee status, refugee policy
- protected personsnoncombatant, civilian, refugee, asylum seeker, minor
stateless personcitizen
Legal national member
national · naturalized citizen · subject · passport holder · dual citizen
stateless personcitizen
Legal national member
native · national · countryman · patriot · compatriot
state, person, homeless, states, impersonal, personable, impersonate, personalize, personalized