Should bona fide residents be considered persona non grata?
I’m sorry, Kotawinters, but you’re wrong on the defintion. The literal translation of the phrase is “unwelcome person.” It has nothing to do with being a social pariah; it’s a legal term of art referring to diplomatic personnel who are required to leave the country to which they are posted. You use the word “residents” in your question, but then switch to “citizen” in your answer. These are two different statuses with different rules that apply. In the U.S. (where I am located), natural born citizens may not be declared persona non grata or exiled. Naturalized citizens can lose their citizenship if they misrepresented themselves on their citizenship applications, but short of that, this status can’t be applied to them either. The reason that exile is not possible for a U.S. citizen is that there is a long-standing principle in international law that everyone is entitled to have a country (i.e., there should be no stateless persons). This is a provision of the Universal Declaration on H
No. To be persona non grata is to be a social pariah. Branding a person as unacceptable and publicly tagging him as unwelcome in a city wherein he is free to enter and leave by virtue of his being a citizen is tantamount to imposing a punishment that is not provided by law. The declaration of persona non grata is being practiced in diplomatic relations.
