Skip to content
EntityQ1151616· pop 36· linked from 419 articles

stateless nation

Sign in to save

ethnic/national minority that does not possess its own state and is not the majority population in any nation state

Wikidata facts

Subclass of
nation
Show 4 more facts
topic's main category
Category:Stateless nationalism
Commons category
Stateless nations
opposite of
Statehood
different from
stateless society
Sources (1)

via Wikidata · CC0

~7 min read

Encyclopedic overview

A stateless nation is an ethnic group or nation that does not possess its own sovereign state. 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. Members of stateless nations may be citizens of the country in which they live, or they may be denied citizenship by that country. Stateless nations are usually not represented in international sports or in international organisations such as the United Nations. Nations without a state are classified as fourth-world nations. Some stateless nations have a history of statehood, while some were always stateless.

History

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “stateless nation” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.