Statelessness means exclusion from the family of nations entirely.

Evidence

The first loss which the rightless suffered was the loss of their homes, and this meant the loss of the entire social texture into which they were born and in which they established for themselves a distinct place in the world. This calamity is far from unprecedented; in the long memory of history, forced migrations of individuals or whole groups of people for political or economic reasons look like everyday occurrences. What is unprecedented is not the loss of a home but the impossibility of finding a new one. Suddenly, there was no place on earth where migrants could go without the severest restrictions, no country where they would be assimilated, no territory where they could found a new community of their own. This, moreover, had next to nothing to do with any material problem of overpopulation; it was a problem not of space but of political organization. Nobody had been aware that mankind, for so long a time considered under the image of a family of nations, had reached the stage where whoever was thrown out of one of these tightly organized closed communities found himself thrown out of the family of nations altogether. — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 715

Categorization

• XREF: Directly feeds the reader’s toolkit on the imagined community of the nation and how being expelled from one closed community means expulsion from all.
• SEED: Essay angle: the shift from forced migration as everyday occurrence to total exclusion as unprecedented marks a qualitative change in political organization.