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Nationality is between a country and a person, sometimes the people who are no relate to any country, call stateless. Also some of the stateless can be refugees, these two groups of people is care by UNHCR (United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees). Nationless is a very big problem; it may affect more than 10 billion people in this world. Everyone in the world can be having their human right, but some activity in country only able nationals to participate, for example: election. Also much of the stateless didn't have their right, they may never get the ID of the country, just get in to jail, losing the chance of education and health services or can’t get a job (UNHCR, 2014). This article is talking about what power of the nation states …show more content…

In this person is don't want himself protect by that country who fear, also don't want to return to that country. By the divide of UNHCR, there are four types of people, which they care: Asylum-Seeker, Stateless people, Internally Displaced People and Returnees. Asylum-Seeker refers to the person who is finding the international protection, not all the asylum-seeker final can be a refugee, but all the refugees begin is an asylum-seeker. Stateless people refer to who are not relating to any country and national. Internally displaced people refer to the people who are forced to leave their home because of the wars, or some human problem, and getting in to another country from the border. Returnees refer to the people who return to their own country, they are supported by UNHCR when they arrive (UNHCR, 2014). The nation state is a country; they have the political legitimacy from serving as a sovereign entity. A country is mix by culture and nation that mean a nation state may in the same place. Much of the nation state is forms by a people with a …show more content…

Sari Hanafi (2011) pointed out have three levels of crisis is very important. First, the national state has a power to change or control whole population, make the people in the state to be stateless people. If this happen in Europe, much of the national state does it after the World War II. Especially in 1948, Israeli policies expelling Palestinians, in Jerusalem the Palestinian just only the temporary residents, they have to prove they are life in city at the time. From Libya (1995), the Palestinian refugees were getting expulsion, because of the absence of civil and socioeconomic right, and stated them to be specific undesirable populace. The second is about the sovereign to agree a nation or a religion. The problem of “Israel is Jewish State” and “Jordan First” is because the population, through the move living places to get another nationality, to build another home or homeland. This the second way to move the refugees in a nation states. The third level is about the benefit of right in a nation state. In the traditional nation state have their own right for their citizens, but that is not human right. In the place that has the right for citizens, you must be citizens; otherwise you are same the refugees or stateless people at the beginning of 1950s. Refugees and stateless people are don't have their right, not protect under the law. That problem is not only happen in the Middle East country, also happening

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