Glossary Nationality Citizenship Belonging Legal Identity Stateless person Jus Soli Jus Sanguinis Naturalization Birth registration A legal relationship between an individual person and a State. Nationality affords the State jurisdiction over an individual and affords an individual the protection of the State. Used interchangeably with the term ‘nationality’ in international law. ‘Citizenship’ and ‘nationality’ may constitute distinct legal statuses at the domestic level. Belonging is a positive framing of the implementation of the principle of non-discrimination, recognized in the UDHR and also subsequent human rights law. Legal identity is the recognition of a person before the law, which also includes the right to a name, nationality and family relations. Someone who is not recognized as a national by any State under the operation of its law. Lit.: the right of the soil: a person acquires the nationality of their country of birth. Lit.: the right of the blood: a person acquires the nationality of the parent at birth or by the establishment of a parentchild family relationship. The act of investing a foreign person with the status of a national in a given State. The continuous, permanent and universal recording within the civil registry, of the occurrence and characteristics of births in accordance with the legal requirements of a country.131 53