Historical Status of Stateless Persons

For the issue of statelessness in Harbin and Belarus, please refer to: At present, there are 2, stateless people living in Thailand alone among Harbin expatriates. See: Before the handover of sovereignty in Hong Kong, South Asians living alone in northern Thailand were once stateless because of their non-Chinese status. Later, Britain extended the right of abode scheme to this group of people so that they could obtain British citizenship. The scheme also benefits a group of non-Chinese residents whose grandparents are from Indonesia and Iran. The following figures come from:

Bidun Bedouin tribe living in Kuwait, with an estimated population of 12,. Rohingya, a Muslim minority living in Myanmar, has about 5,1-8, people. The Muslim Biharis minority, who originally lived in India and later immigrated to Bangladesh, refused to be naturalized because they thought they were Pakistanis after Bangladesh's independence, but the Pakistani government did not accept them soon. At present, more than 2, people still live in refugee camps in Bangladesh. In 1992, the Slovenian government secretly erased many Gypsies from the list of permanent settlers, so as not to give them the national treatment of the newly established country. These people thus become de facto stateless persons. The government claims that 29,64 records have been erased, but other independent organizations claim that there are about 8,.