stateless person
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International law defines a stateless person as someone “not considered a national by any state under the operation of its law.”
From Slate • Jun. 27, 2025
She was once again asked to apply for citizenship in India "as a stateless person".
From BBC • Jul. 30, 2022
He struggles as a stateless person to obtain visas, and “our letters,” he laments, degenerate into “bureaucratic reports.”
From The New Yorker • Nov. 16, 2015
In his final column for The Rand Daily Mail, “A Native of Nowhere,” he wrote of “taking a grave step” and becoming “a stateless person, a wanderer.”
From New York Times • Aug. 8, 2014
In the 1920's the young Nabokov, like other emigres, was really a stateless person traveling on a special Nansen passport.
From Time Magazine Archive
