Correct, nationality and citizenship are not precisely coextensive, but they are close enough in practice and citizenship sufficiently more commonly encountered of a concept that I wasn't going to try to get overly specific about nationality in a conversation where refugee status and statelessness were being confused. Perhaps a hypercorrection to my tendency to go into excessive detail... In any case, yes, there are some countries [0], where some nationals are not full citizens, and statelessness is precisely the absence of nationality, not citizenship.
Correct, nationality and citizenship are not precisely coextensive, but they are close enough in practice and citizenship sufficiently more commonly encountered of a concept that I wasn't going to try to get overly specific about nationality in a conversation where refugee status and statelessness were being confused. Perhaps a hypercorrection to my tendency to go into excessive detail... In any case, yes, there are some countries [0], where some nationals are not full citizens, and statelessness is precisely the absence of nationality, not citizenship.
[0] the United States among them. https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/legal/travel-lega...
Not usually. Wikipedia:
> in most modern countries all nationals are citizens of the state, and full citizens are always nationals of the state.
> In international law, a "stateless person" is someone who is "not considered as a national by any state under the operation of its law"
Even the US distinguishes between citizens and nationals. Most famously, American Samoans are non-citizen nationals:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizenship_of_the_United_Stat...