Loss of national rights and human rights are experienced as identical by the stateless.

Evidence

The stateless people were as convinced as the minorities that loss of national rights was identical with loss of human rights, that the former inevitably entailed the latter. The more they were excluded from right in any form, the more they tended to look for a reintegration into a national, into their own national community. — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 710

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to Arendt’s later point that the ‘right to have rights’ precedes all others, and to theories of how exclusion radicalizes group identity.