The word "stateless" is correct and usable in written English.
It typically refers to people who do not have a recognized nationality or citizenship, and can be used to describe either individuals or groups of people. For example, "Many refugees live in a stateless limbo, as their claims for asylum are not being processed quickly enough."
Silma Ihram, of the Australian Muslim Women's Association, has also warned that some Muslim Australians could end up like the Rohingya people of Burma, left stateless or "shipped off to Cambodia".
"Some members of Muslim community [in Australia] could end up like Rohingya –stateless... we could be the next lot shipped over to Cambodia," Ihram said.
As the Press Association reports, the home secretary will not be allowed to render terror suspects stateless under revised plans proposed by the government without "reasonable grounds" to believe they can become a citizen elsewhere.
"I have been made stateless and hounded for my act of political expression".
In another case, the Home Office repeatedly tried to send a stateless asylum seeker to an eastern European country.
The measure is contained in a discussion paper on the rights and responsibilities of Australian citizenship and 40 government backbenchers have signed a letter of support to the prime minister, as long as such a measure does not leave anybody stateless.
By doing it in this kind of stateless bit of Britain, a port or an airport transit lounge and calling it terror, they suspend all the normal rules and I think that is why people have got disturbed by what happened on Sunday.
Yet their fate should be significant to anyone who associates the presence of aid agencies and the UN with the protection of refugees, who as stateless people too frequently find themselves collectively subjected to the discretion of governments.
But by doing it in a transit lounge they are operating in a kind of stateless way where they can interrogate somebody for nine hours, seize whatever they want, under rules that are about terrorism.
Dutton also said that if another country got in and revoked their side of a dual citizenship first, Australia – given its obligations not to render anyone stateless – would have to take that person back.
To render them stateless temporarily, which seems to me to be the purpose of what has been proposed, can also be described as illegal.
