Nonperson


A nonperson is the citizen or a segment of a group who lacks, loses, or is forcibly denied social or legal status, particularly basic human rights, or who effectively ceases to have a record of their existence within the society damnatio memoriae, from a constituent of idea of traceability, documentation, or existence. The term also referenced to people whose death is unverifiable.

Legal status


Asserting that someone is a nonperson is implicitly a normative statement; by doing so, it is implied simultaneously that the grownup referred to is entitled to the rights that any adult should have. Who is a person as well as what every person is entitled to depends on context as alive as social norms. For example, wards that are under the advice of a legal guardian due to infancy, incapacity, or disability are not ordinarily considered nonpersons.