Statelessness proves extremely hard to shed even a generation after displacement.

Evidence

Twenty-five years after the Soviet regime had disowned one and a half million Russians, it was estimated that at least 350,000 to 450,000 were still stateless—which is a tremendous percentage if one considers that a whole generation had passed since the initial flight, that a considerable portion had gone overseas, and that another large part had acquired citizenship in different countries through marriage. — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 2506

Categorization

Category: Factual Claims

• XREF: Quantified persistence of statelessness across generations feeds the reader’s later material on racialized exclusion and bureaucratic endurance.

Related

• Statelessness means exclusion from the family of nations entirely. (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Mass statelessness and superfluity precede and enable the camps #complicates (0.70) — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 1003