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adjective
- 1. (of a person) not recognized as a citizen of any country: "thousands were made stateless by enforcement of the citizenship act"
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Status of a person who is not a citizen/national of any country
In international law, a stateless person is someone who is "not considered as a national by any state under the operation of its law". Some stateless people are also refugees. However, not all refugees are stateless, and many people who are stateless have never crossed an international border. At the end of 2022, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees estimated 4.4 million people worldw... Wikipedia