Not counted as a citizen of any country. A stateless person has no country that says "this one is ours". That sounds like a small paper problem, but it is a heavy one: without a country you usually cannot get a passport, so you cannot travel legally; you may not be able to go to school, work legally, open a bank account, get married on paper, or use a hospital.

Not counted as a citizen of any country.不被算作任何國家的公民。 A stateless person一個stateless的人 has no country that says "this one is ours".，沒有一個國家會說「這個人是我們的」。 That sounds like a small paper problem這聽起來像只是文件上的小問題, but it is a heavy one，但其實是很沉重的問題 : without a country you usually cannot get a passport：沒有國家，你通常辦不到護照, so you cannot travel legally，所以無法合法出國旅行; you may not be able to go to school, work legally, open a bank account, get married on paper, or use a hospital.；你可能無法上學、無法合法工作、開銀行帳戶、在文件上結婚，或使用醫院。

Children born to stateless parents are often born stateless too, so it passes down. People become stateless in several ways — a country breaks apart or disappears, a government takes citizenship away from a group, a child is born in a place where the law does not give them the parents' nationality and the country of birth does not give them its own either.

Children born to stateless parentsstateless父母生下的孩子 are often born stateless too常常一出生也是stateless, so it passes down.，所以會一代傳一代。 People become stateless in several ways人變成stateless有好幾種原因 — a country breaks apart or disappears——一個國家分裂或消失了, a government takes citizenship away from a group，政府把公民身分從某個群體身上拿走, a child is born in a place where the law does not give them the parents' nationality and the country of birth does not give them its own either.，一個孩子出生在一個地方，當地法律不給他父母的國籍，出生地國家也不給他自己的國籍。

The word is formal and mostly appears in news reports and in the work of the United Nations, in phrases like a stateless person and stateless children.

The word is formal這個字很正式 and mostly appears in news reports and in the work of the United Nations，主要出現在新聞報導和聯合國的相關工作裡, in phrases like a stateless person and stateless children.，像a stateless person、stateless children這類說法。

Note it is not the same as refugee. A refugee has run away from a country but usually still legally belongs to it; a stateless person may never have moved at all and still belongs nowhere. Someone can be both.

Note it is not the same as refugee.注意這跟refugee難民不一樣。 A refugee has run away from a country but usually still legally belongs to itrefugee是逃離了一個國家，但通常在法律上還是屬於那個國家; a stateless person may never have moved at all and still belongs nowhere.；stateless的人可能根本沒離開過，卻哪裡都不屬於。 Someone can be both.一個人也可能兩種身分都是。

In computing, stateless has a completely separate meaning: a system is stateless when it does not remember anything about what happened before, so each request starts from nothing. Students who read about web servers will meet that one, and it has nothing to do with citizenship.

In computing在電腦領域, stateless has a completely separate meaning，stateless有一個完全不同的意思 : a system is stateless when it does not remember anything about what happened before：一個系統是stateless，指它不會記得之前發生過什麼, so each request starts from nothing.，所以每一次請求都是從零開始。 Students who read about web servers will meet that one讀到網頁伺服器的學生會遇到這個用法, and it has nothing to do with citizenship.，它跟國籍完全沒有關係。