statelessness
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- noun
- /ˈsteɪtləsnəs/
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apátrida
- That is, again, what global statelessness means.
Examples
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One of the first MDG 2.0 targets should be reducing statelessness and providing universal legal identity: the enactment and enforcement of legislation ensuring every citizen has universal access to a documented legal identity and is registered at birth.
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While the international community is highlighting the statelessness of the Rohingya, many Myanmar citizens feel that ethnic Rakhine who were also victims during the riots are largely ignored.
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But the centuries of statelessness give the Jewish version a special force.
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This is what happens when you take away a functioning society and sink a nation into statelessness.
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The change stripped hundreds of thousands of people of their citizenship, pushing almost the entire population of the West Bank over the edge into the misery of statelessness.
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Today, Somalis feel the indignities of statelessness in restrictions against international travel, in their secondary status in many countries of asylum, marginalization in economic transactions, and a lack of international protection and security.
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They are the epitome of statelessness and spend their lives in unofficial camps where conditions are notoriously poor (only 28,000 are registered by the UN).
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Here, the condition of the Jews for 2,000 years is everyone's condition, although it is felt most acutely by those for whom statelessness is doubled, at both the global and the national level—people without a state, or living in failed states, or in states torn by civil wars.
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Many refugees experience statelessness after being forced to flee their home country without any legal recognition.
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The government has outlined new policies to address the issue of statelessness among marginalized communities.
Antonyms
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Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Statelessness comes from state (a country or government) plus -less ('without') and -ness ('the condition of'). So statelessness is the condition of not having a country or legal citizenship, like being 'homeless' but for nationality.