stateless
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- adjective
- /ˈsteɪtləs/
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apátrida
- A Palestinian refugee in Lebanon, homeless, jobless, stateless, separated from his family.
- stateless refugees
- stateless people
- stateless persons
So the result is that children born to GCC mothers and non GCC fathers or not from that state are effectively stateless.
- So the result is that children born to GCC mothers and non GCC fathers or not from that state are effectively stateless.
Examples
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More than 200,000 refugees are living, sometimes stateless, in other countries.
Blog text (2) -
The Palestinians have been forced to live in wretched refugee camps, their homes gone, many of them stateless, living on U.N. relief supplies.
Academic text (2018) -
Now she was a stateless person without a country.
Fiction book (1999) -
Stateless, without a passport, she did not know where she would live or how she could travel.
Academic text (1997) -
Wiesel also spoke as an American citizen who had once been stateless but had been given the freedom to pursue his vocation in America.
Academic text (1998) -
Half a century ago, Hannah Arendt considered the plight of "stateless people," the refugees and displaced persons from the Second World War.
Academic text (2004) -
After being exiled, he found himself stateless and unable to return to his homeland.
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Many tattered documents were discovered, revealing the lives of stateless individuals seeking a place to belong.
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She lived a difficult life as a stateless person, often facing discrimination and lack of basic rights.
Synonyms
Not belonging to any country and having no citizenship
How National
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Stateless comes from state ('country' or 'government') and the ending -less ('without'). So it literally means 'without a country', which explains why a stateless person has no official citizenship.