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  2. Statelessness - Wikipedia

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    Not holding proof of nationality—being "undocumented"—is not the same as being stateless, but the lack of identity documents such as a birth certificate can lead to statelessness. Millions of people live, or have lived, their entire lives with no documents, without their nationality ever being questioned. Two factors are of particular ...

  3. Stateless nation - Wikipedia

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    Only a small fraction of the world's national groups have associated nation states; the rest are distributed in one or more states. While there are over 3000 estimated nations in the world, there were only 193 member states of the United Nations as of 2011, of which fewer than 20 are considered to be ethnically homogeneous nation states. Thus ...

  4. Loss of citizenship - Wikipedia

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    These provisions often stem from international treaties that prevent governments from making people stateless, as well as limiting individual's ability to voluntarily make themselves stateless. [5] Article 7 of the Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness provides that "[l]aws for the renunciation of a nationality shall be conditional upon ...

  5. Alien (law) - Wikipedia

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    World War II poster. In the United States, the term "alien" is as synonymous with foreign national. [23] Under the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) of the United States, "[t]he term 'alien' means any person not a citizen or national of the United States." [2] [4] People born in American Samoa or on Swains Island are statutorily "non ...

  6. Denaturalization - Wikipedia

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    Denaturalization is the loss of citizenship against the will of the person concerned. Denaturalization is often applied to ethnic minorities and political dissidents. Denaturalization can be a penalty for actions considered criminal by the state, often only for errors in the naturalization process such a

  7. Wikipedia:Citizenship and nationality - Wikipedia

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    Citizenship is a legal status in a political institution such as a city or a state.The relationship between a citizen and the institution that confers this status is formal, and in contemporary liberal-democratic models includes both a set of rights that the citizen possesses by virtue of this relationship, and a set of obligations or duties that they owe to that institution and their fellow ...

  8. The 26 Most Awful Things People Have Seen Others Doing ... - AOL

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    In a bad one, for a lot of money, vampires, zombies, werewolves, maniacs, and other bad guys take turns on the screen in a gloomy atmosphere—and yet, you are not scared at all.

  9. Renunciation of citizenship - Wikipedia

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    Although renunciation may be the most commonly used term when referring to loss of US nationality, renunciation is only one of the seven expatriating acts that may be performed voluntarily and with the intent to relinquish US nationality stated in section 349 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (8 U.S.C. § 1481). [27]