statelessness
noun
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By Yasmeen Serhan May 22, 2024 10:20 AM EDT
Since 1948, Palestinians living in the West Bank, East Jerusalem, and Gaza have remained effectively stateless, caught in the limbo of a decades-long peace process that has yielded neither peace nor a state to call their own.
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Yasmeen Serhan, TIME, 22 May 2024
In 1968, the apartheid government banned the artist from returning, making Cole, at the age of 28, a stateless person.
—Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 May 2024
Still others, such as over a million Rohingya, have been rendered stateless because the military refuses to recognize them as rightful inhabitants of the country.
—Hannah Beech, New York Times, 20 Apr. 2024
Rohingya refugees preparing for the worst About 1 million members of the stateless Rohingya community, who fled persecution in nearby Myanmar during a military crackdown in 2017, are living in the sprawling and overcrowded camps in Cox’s Bazar.
—Angus Watson, CNN, 14 May 2023
In those areas, for instance, access to social services and health care is conditional on holding a Russian passport, and those without one after July 1 will be considered foreign citizens or stateless people and could be subject to deportation, the report said.
—Constant Méheut, New York Times, 11 Mar. 2024
The territory’s four million or so people are effectively stateless.
—Anand Gopal, The New Yorker, 11 Mar. 2024
In the decades since, the agency has taken on many functions of a state for stateless Palestinians, such as providing food, health care and schools.
—Joyce Sohyun Lee, Washington Post, 17 Feb. 2024
The organization has advocated for federal legislation that would offer stateless people more protection and a clearer path to citizenship.
—Theresa Vargas, Washington Post, 10 Feb. 2024
Yasmeen Serhan, TIME, 22 May 2024
In 1968, the apartheid government banned the artist from returning, making Cole, at the age of 28, a stateless person.
—Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 May 2024
Still others, such as over a million Rohingya, have been rendered stateless because the military refuses to recognize them as rightful inhabitants of the country.
—Hannah Beech, New York Times, 20 Apr. 2024
Rohingya refugees preparing for the worst About 1 million members of the stateless Rohingya community, who fled persecution in nearby Myanmar during a military crackdown in 2017, are living in the sprawling and overcrowded camps in Cox’s Bazar.
—Angus Watson, CNN, 14 May 2023
In those areas, for instance, access to social services and health care is conditional on holding a Russian passport, and those without one after July 1 will be considered foreign citizens or stateless people and could be subject to deportation, the report said.
—Constant Méheut, New York Times, 11 Mar. 2024
The territory’s four million or so people are effectively stateless.
—Anand Gopal, The New Yorker, 11 Mar. 2024
In the decades since, the agency has taken on many functions of a state for stateless Palestinians, such as providing food, health care and schools.
—Joyce Sohyun Lee, Washington Post, 17 Feb. 2024
The organization has advocated for federal legislation that would offer stateless people more protection and a clearer path to citizenship.
—Theresa Vargas, Washington Post, 10 Feb. 2024
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“Stateless.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/stateless. Accessed 28 May. 2024.
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