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Vol.1, Issue 48, October 2022

The Other Side of the Coin:

Statelessness

Nada AbdulBaset AbdulRahman - Level 3 - Political Science
Nada.abdelbasit2020@feps.edu.eg

Withdrawal of nationality can make the citizen’s
life a hell on earth, but what if the citizen is born
stateless?
Our nationality constitutes a big share of our
identity, and it is what expresses our belonging
to a certain homeland and, to an entire life, too.
Without it, we do not only lose our
belongingness to the state but also the
advantages accompanying it.
There are around 10 million stateless (also But why do people become stateless?
known as Bidoon) around the globe and over one
third of them are, unfortunately, children. There Actually, there are multiple reasons
are cases in which one is born stateless and in that produce such kind of complexity.
others becomes stateless. The international Some are related to religion, some to
definition of this phenomena is: “a person who is national laws and others due to the
not considered as a national by any State under
the operation of its law”. And by being stateless, emergence of new states after
you are not a citizen. independence.
Statelessness deprive its parties from the very The first reason is the emergence of
basic rights that any human deserves; education, new states after colonization. The
healthcare services and even opening a bank newly independent state announces
account! In order to get to know more about this
status, there is a need to know why it exists. the registration of the nationality; in
which the nationals,

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