My answer to the Stack Exchange question. (Never 100% sure what discussion to add in a post which points to another discussion site...) There's a good article

My answer to the Stack Exchange question. (Never 100% sure what discussion to add in a post which points to another discussion site...) There's a good article to answer your question on the Washington Post website [1]: All those jokes comparing Snowden’s case to the Tom Hanks film “The Terminal”? They have a distinctly unromantic basis in the life of Iranian Mehran Karimi Nasseri [2], who lived in Paris’ Charles de Gaulle Airport for 18 years after Iran expelled him. [1]: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2013/06/26/heres-what-happens-to-asylum-seekers-who-stay-in-airport-limbo-indefinitely/?tid=rssfeed http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2013/06/26... [2]: http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/0621/p11s02-almo.html http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/0621/p11s02-almo.html