Stateless Individuals
Stateless individuals are people who are not considered a national by any state. Stateless people can also be refugees, but these categories are considered to be separate by the UNHCR. Statelessness can occur for different reasons such as discrimination against minority groups by national legislation, a failure to include all residents as citizens when a state becomes independent, and conflicts of laws between states.
Statelessness people are often denied access to employment, education and health care and are usually unable to obtain documents such as ID cards or passports.[9] For example, the Rohingya are stateless Muslims from northern Rakhine state in Burma. Within Burma, they are denied basic rights such as employment, education and freedom of movement. Many of the Rohingya who fled Burma are often denied refugee or asylum status in neighboring countries as well, rendering them stateless.