Bidoon (meaning "without") is a term used in Kuwait to refer to residents of the country who do not hold citizenship. Bidoon may be refugees who have illegally entered a Kuwait to avoid poverty or war, or those who have settled there since 1920 but who have not been recognised by the state.

Before 1990, the majority of bidoon were Bedouin settlers from the northern Arabian Peninsula. Following the invasion and subsequent liberation of Kuwait in the early 1990s a large number (estimated at between 50,000 and 85,000) of Iraqi refugees remained in the country. A further 10,000 to 20,000 further refugees of Palestinian origin have since joined them.

The government of Kuwait have stated it is their intention to assimilate the bidoon, granting them full citizenship. In May 2000 up to 36,000 bidoon who had been resident in Kuwait since 1965 were granted citizenship, and 2001 the same rights were extended to bidoon husbands of Kuwaiti women. The numbers granted citizenship have since fallen to between 600 and 2000 per year.

Bidoon is not the same as Bedouin btw, a term generally applied to Arab nomadic groups, who are found throughout most of the desert belt extending from the Atlantic coast of the Sahara via the Western Desert, Sinai, and Negev to the eastern coast of the Arabian desert.

(adaption from: Wikipedia)

bidoon , people staying in kuwait without passport and they claim they they was here long ago so our government doesnt know what do do
1. give them nationality
2. band them - but to where - since they dont have country .

bidoon are 100.000 and kuwait is one of the richest ,small country . so think about it ( wickedwillie )

It's Bedouin. There are two types of Arabs (not only in Kuwait), the local arabs and the desert arabs(bedouins). They are differentiated from their economical status, skin color, and behaviour.

Local Arabs - are white skinned caucaseans, rich, hospitable and extravagant.

Bedouins - are dark-skinned or dark-/dirt-brown skinned caucaseans, poor, and have wild attitudes and simply out-of-the-modern world.