#statelessness
- Stateless person — A person who is not recognized as a citizen by any state under the operation of its law, completely lacking nationality. This structural and vulnerable legal status can occur as a result of conflicts of law between states, the dissolution of countries, or the forced withdrawal of political rights due to oppression.
- Stateless woman — A woman who is not recognized as a citizen by any state under the operation of its law, completely lacking nationality; as an adjective, it describes the state, legal condition, or documents specific to a person or population in the situation of having no homeland or legal civic affiliation.
- Statelessness — The status or legal condition of a stateless person; the complete absence of any nationality in the case of an individual, characterized by the lack of legal bonds and mutual obligations between a physical person and a sovereign state.