Becoming stateless

JC Helary helary at eskimo.com
Fri Mar 24 18:44:04 PST 2000


I was just wondering if there was a possibility to become stateless by will. Like cancel one's nationality.

Maybe it is silly but I thought the first alienation comes from being made a 'national' at birth. I just read things on the status os stateless persons on the un page and thought if all the persons who want to live abroad first become stateless they actually are less hasseled and benefit from more protection than 'normal' foreigners. In practice it might not be the case though, any info about that.

As far as I'm concerned, I was seriously thinking of canceling my french nationality a while ago and my staying in Japan has only reinforced this intention. Do any of you know groups or activist that work in this direction ???

JC Helary

"Stand up all victims of oppressions for the tyrants fear your might"



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