Someone who is not considered as a national by ANY

state (de jure stateless); or possibly someone who does

not enjoy fundamental rights enjoyed by other nationals

in their home state (de facto stateless). Statelessness

can be a personal disaster: some stateless people live in

a Kafkaesque netherworld where they do not officially

exist and therefore have virtually no rights at all.

Unlike the other groups outlined here, they may have

never moved away from the place where they were

born. But some stateless people are also refugees.