Nonperson

A nonperson is a citizen or a member of a group who lacks, loses, or is forcibly denied social or legal status, especially basic human rights, or who effectively ceases to have a record of their existence within a society (damnatio memoriae), from a point of view of traceability, documentation, or existence. The term also refers to people whose death is unverifiable.

Legal status

In the case of undocumented immigrants and at times foreign nationals in the United States who have entered the country legally, there are comparisons made to non-personhood due to their lack of agency and differential treatment under the law.

See also

• Damnatio memoriae
• Disenfranchisement
• Exile, which includes internal exile
• Former people
• Homo sacer
• Internally displaced person
• Outlaw
• Persona non grata
• Personhood
• Stateless person

References

1. Persona non grata
2. Apartheid
3. Person
4. Jim Crow laws
5. Leon Trotsky
6. Jorge Enea Spilimbergo
7. Feminism
8. Antisemitism
9. White supremacy
10. Racism
11. Eugenics
12. Slavery
13. Hindutva
14. Michael Laudor
15. Homophobia
16. Ku Klux Klan
17. Islamophobia
18. Normalization of deviance
19. Homo sacer
20. Sexism