statelessness
noun
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The logic and its appeal The Kurds – roughly 30 million to 40 million people across Turkey, Iraq, Syria and Iran – are the world’s largest stateless ethnic group.
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John Calabrese, The Conversation, 7 Mar. 2026
In 2019, Colombia found itself home to twenty four thousand stateless babies, all of them the children of Venezuelan immigrants.
—Literary Hub, 24 Feb. 2026
His father was a refugee from Burma, a stateless child who fled the Japanese invasion of his home country during the Second World War, ending up in British India.
—Billy Perrigo, Time, 17 Feb. 2026
The Kurds are one of the world’s largest stateless ethnic groups, with ancestral roots in Iran, Iraq, Syria, and other Middle Eastern countries.
—Emily Hallas, The Washington Examiner, 15 Jan. 2026
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John Calabrese, The Conversation, 7 Mar. 2026
In 2019, Colombia found itself home to twenty four thousand stateless babies, all of them the children of Venezuelan immigrants.
—Literary Hub, 24 Feb. 2026
His father was a refugee from Burma, a stateless child who fled the Japanese invasion of his home country during the Second World War, ending up in British India.
—Billy Perrigo, Time, 17 Feb. 2026
The Kurds are one of the world’s largest stateless ethnic groups, with ancestral roots in Iran, Iraq, Syria, and other Middle Eastern countries.
—Emily Hallas, The Washington Examiner, 15 Jan. 2026
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“Stateless.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/stateless. Accessed 13 Mar. 2026.
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