Definition of stateless in English:
stateless
adjective ˈsteɪtləsˈsteɪtləs
(of a person) not recognized as a citizen of any country.
thousands were made stateless by enforcement of the citizenship act
Example sentencesExamples
- The facts are that at a time of international conflict, a tiny proportion of stateless people on the move will hit our shores.
- Many were political fugitives from their own countries, and, as stateless people, they naturally turned against the very idea of a state.
- But during the political upheavals she found herself a stateless person and was granted British citizenship, though she still returns to Malawi from time to time to visit her family.
- On 6 August, the High Court found that the Migration Act authorised the Australian government to detain stateless people indefinitely, regardless of the prospect of ever being able to deport them.
- He has been refused visas in Australia, but cannot return to India because the government doesn't recognise his nationality - making him a stateless person.
Derivatives
nounˈsteɪtləsnəs
But in a recent study two World Bank economists found a surprising side to Somali statelessness.
Example sentencesExamples
- This sense of statelessness terrified him and he dreaded what might happen if the Indonesian or Malaysian police nabbed him.
- Richard Falk argues that the statelessness of the terrorists might make democracy or nationhood an inappropriate forum of address.
- The plight of many asylum-seekers, their desperation and their statelessness, has in the past been summed up by their lack of documentation.
- No people can be expected to accept a political solution that condemns them to a permanent state of poverty, statelessness and refugeehood.
Definition of stateless in US English:
stateless
adjectiveˈstātləsˈsteɪtləs
(of a person) not recognized as a citizen of any country.
Example sentencesExamples
- On 6 August, the High Court found that the Migration Act authorised the Australian government to detain stateless people indefinitely, regardless of the prospect of ever being able to deport them.
- He has been refused visas in Australia, but cannot return to India because the government doesn't recognise his nationality - making him a stateless person.
- Many were political fugitives from their own countries, and, as stateless people, they naturally turned against the very idea of a state.
- The facts are that at a time of international conflict, a tiny proportion of stateless people on the move will hit our shores.
- But during the political upheavals she found herself a stateless person and was granted British citizenship, though she still returns to Malawi from time to time to visit her family.