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    It is not the case that Modern states impose citizenship by birth, restrict emigration through passport controls and wealth transfers, and make statelessness a condition of severe rightlessness.

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    • 1.Most states offer naturalization pathways and international refugee law provides rights independent of citizenship, contradicting absolute rightlessness claim.
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    • 2.Citizenship-by-birth provides crucial legal identity, inheritance rights, and social belonging that statelessness actually prevents—it protects rather than restricts.
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    • 3.Passport controls serve legitimate functions: preventing human trafficking, tax evasion, and security threats—not merely concentrating state power arbitrarily.
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    • 1.Stateless persons lack legal protection, access to courts, employment rights, and social services, making rightlessness a documented empirical reality.
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    • 2.Citizenship-by-birth and passport controls function as mechanisms of social control that concentrate power in state institutions over individual freedom.
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    • 3.Wealth transfer restrictions (inheritance taxes, capital controls) prevent resource mobility across borders, entrenching global inequality by citizenship.
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