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Variant phrasings in use in the pre-Zionist and pre-state eras include "a country without a people for a people without a country," "a land without a nation for a nation without a land." [1] According to Edward Said, the phrasing was "a land without people for a people without a land." [11]
Tens of thousands of people live north of the Arctic Circle and many hundreds of thousands more within the Arctic Ocean drainage basin but outside of the Circle. The only parts of the Arctic that are truly uninhabited are the interior and northernmost coasts of Greenland , many of the islands in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago and some other ...
Terra nullius (/ ˈ t ɛr ə ˈ n ʌ l ɪ ə s /, [1] plural terrae nullius) is a Latin expression meaning "nobody's land". [2] Since the nineteenth century it has occasionally been used in international law as a principle to justify claims that territory may be acquired by a state's occupation of it.
Millions of people live, or have lived, their entire lives with no documents, without their nationality ever being questioned. Two factors are of particular importance: whether the nationality in question was acquired automatically or through some form of registration
A stateless nation is an ethnic group or nation that does not possess its own sovereign state. [1] Use of the term implies that such ethnic groups have the right to self-determination, to establish an independent nation-state with its own government.
A variation apparently first used by a Christian clergyman and Christian Restorationist, Rev. Alexander Keith, D.D., appeared in 1843, when he wrote that the Jews are "a people without a country; even as their own land, as subsequently to be shown, is in a great measure a country without a people"..[4][5] The context in which it was published ...
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[6] Indigenous people throughout the world have been displaced from their traditional lands as a result of settler colonialism, corporate imperialism, war, logging and mining, and even land conservation efforts, which has increased their social marginalization, lack of access to basic social services, and chronic poverty.