What is the difference between a refugee and a stateless person?

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What is the difference between a refugee and a stateless person?
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Just want to know what the difference, in terms of legal rights & status, and the limitational difference between a refugee and a stateless person.

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A refugee is someone who is fleeing their native state or country because of a disaster of some kind. A stateless person is simply a person who has no citizenship to any country.

A refugee and a stateless person both have rights of that equal to any other immigrant to that particular country, except refugees usually don't wait as long to be able to move into a country as normal immigrants do.

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