Legal status

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Legal status of Persons
Concepts

Citizenship
Nationality
Naturalization
Leave to Remain
Immigration
Illegal immigration

Legal designations

Citizen
Native-born citizen
Naturalized citizen
Dual-citizen
Alien
Migrant worker
Refugee
Illegal immigrant
Criminal
Prisoner
Slave
Political prisoner
(Enemy alien
Enemy combatant
Administrative detainee)

Social politics

Immigration law
Nationality law
Nationalism
Nativism (politics)
Immigration debate
"Second-class citizen"

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In law legal status refers to the concept of individuals having a particular place in society, relative to the law, as it determines the laws which affect them. Degrees of status, as well as the rights and statutes which apply, vary in accordance with several standard (as well as specialised designations). Various terms are used by different entities to refer to people and their status: terms such as citizen, enlisted soldier, illegal immigrant, exile, convicted criminal, etc.

Changing political conditions, have over time given rise to the usage of controversial and neologist terms such as "enemy combatant"—which though widely criticised is still used as the basis for keeping various political prisoners.